We always imagine some future self that won’t ever get pissed off — that’ll always go to bed on time, always brush our teeth, always enjoy mind-blowing sex with our spouse on Tuesday night. And yet, Stephen Hawking begs to differ: “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a...

There’s no future version of you or me that always knows just what to do, or what matters most. We think we know what’ll make us happy or fulfilled. We’re so smug about it sometimes.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Time doesn’t conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. … Otherwise I don’t see how we can survive much later than 2050.

You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

You talk as if a god had made the Machine,” cried the other. “I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

I am convinced that the way forward for the human race is to recognize and protect the fundamental right of sovereignty over consciousness, to throw off the chains of our divisive religious heritage, to seek out forms of spirituality (or no spirituality at all if we so prefer) that are truly supportive of liberty and...

Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.

Conventional names define a person’s past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

Two steps forward…one step back…I’ve always hated that old cliche too…I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don’t have and the future we can’t control.

Wizards are always troubled about the future.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

He was a prisoner to the calendar, he realised, as we all were. He thought in little boxes that were to be ticked off and filled with things to do. Almost every day he thought back to what he had been doing ten years ago, twenty years ago, further. He lived in the past, by...

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

I extend my hand to every Egyptian so that together we can create a new tomorrow and a better future, … Let me tell you that I need your support to work together for tomorrow.

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn’t mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll...

Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

My future, it almost looks like Christmas—red and green—stop and go.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.

Full moon is falling through the sky.Cranes fly through clouds.Wolves howl. I cannot find restBecause I am powerlessTo amend a broken world.Sima Zian added, “I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can...

To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time ‘But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what’s going to happen in the future?'” Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I’m going to be a famous philosopher in the future?...

We couldn’t achieve what we need for the future.

I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.

Naturally all of us don’t think we deserve very much. We don’t believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and doubtful. It is actually very hard to...

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man’s journey towards his future.

I’m still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won’t have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it’s about the money. It’s a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.

What happened in Your past will help accelerate you to your future

This is the biggest surprise in the data and capital goods are a good indicator of future investment spending.

Only memories have a future.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The last time we were this anxious about the future it preceded a few years of recession. The warning flag is out. . . . A couple years of this would lead to some economic consequences that would be easy to spot in the economy.

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in the small of the back, or out back, in the parking lot, or in the television room...

Look at towards the future! If you see something, it is your imagination only! Because the future is not there yet, it has not born yet!

That makes it inclusive. With the issues we’re facing in the future, it’s very important that everyone feels they have input into the selection of the commissioner.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new...

I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you,...

Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future.