“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”
~John Sladek
“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.”
~Patricia Hampl
“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” ~Eric Hoffer
“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.”
~ George F. Burns
“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
~ Nicole Kidman,
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
~John Dewey
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
~John F. Kennedy
“The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.”
~Destin Figuier
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
~Albert Einstein
“One faces the future with one’s past.”
~Pearl S. Buck
“I have seen the future and it doesn’t work. ”
~Robert Fulford
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
~Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”
~Robertson Davies,
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
~Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
“The future is always beginning now.” ~Mark Strand,
“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind”
~Benjamin Franklin
“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
~ Adolf Hitler
“And in today already walks tomorrow.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge