The richest values of wilderness lies not in the days of Daniel Boone nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
- Aldo Leopold
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is the present.
Treat it as a gift.
At every crossroad on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men and women to guard the past.
- Count Maurice Maeterlink
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
- Evan Esar
The future is purchased by the present.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson (died 1784)
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles Schultz
The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; and the future scares the hell out of me!
- David L. Stein
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Eternity is the only time measure that can do justice to the possibilities life has to offer.
- "The Watchtower" magazine
Don't stumble over something behind you.
- Seneca
One's future will depend on their ability to learn faster and respond to change quicker than their competitors.
The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write. They are those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
- Niels Bohr
I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them. There's no future in it.
- Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers
The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past.
America has entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, of the consultant and subcontractor, of the just-in-time work force - fluid, flexible, disposable. This is the future. Its message is this: You are on your own. For good (sometimes) and ill (often), the workers of the future will constantly have to sell their skills, invent new relationships with employers who must, themselves, change and adapt constantly in order to survive in a ruthless global market.
- Lance Morrow, "The Temping of America" - Time, 1993
Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.
- Richard Corliss
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
- Denis Waitley
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The trouble with the future is that it keeps getting closer and closer.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
That which can be foreseen can be prevented.
Faith is acting as if it were so,
Just as a 75 mile per hour wind isn't three times as forceful as a 25 mile per hour wind - but instead is nine times more powerful - the accelerating future will surprise us with the speed and impact that mark its arrival.
As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful.
The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
The best way to predict the future is to invent (or create) it.
- William Jennings Bryan
- Thomas Jefferson
- Sir William Osler
- Dr. Charles H. Mayo
When it is not so,
So it can become so.
As long as we have memories, yesterday remains.
As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits.
- Harry Lauder
Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
- Marilyn Ferguson
You never know how many apples there are in a seed.
Hindsight is an exact science.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing with the handful of years you possess between the great bookends of mystery?
The trouble with the future is that it keeps getting closer and closer.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
- Henry R. Luce
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
It's never too late to start planning for the future.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.
- Roger von Oech
You must pre-live the future ... not re-live the past ... and savor the moment.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The powerful play goes on - and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no finish line.
- Nike Corporation Motto
THE FUTURE:
The world is made up of three types of people:
- Those who make it happen
- Those who let it happen
- Those who wonder what in the heck happened
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are only two things you "HAVE TO" do in life. You "HAVE TO" die. You "HAVE TO" live until you die. You make up all the rest.
My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering
What we do on some great future occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- H.P. Liddon
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.
The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him "Look up, son, look up". Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- J.F. Kennedy
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Imagine a baseball thrown through the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail - names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture - can you tell in what direction it is traveling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present "freeze frame" of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).
WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS?
Did you ever notice that a rear view mirror is about 2" x 6" and the front windshield is about 2' by 6'? Some people drive down the highway of life with a rear view mirror that is 2x6 feet and occasionally try to peer through a 2x6 inch slit at the future. Would you like to drive at 60mph down an LA freeway with that equipment?
FOCUS ON THE FUTURE, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PAST EXCEPT LEARN FROM IT.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it.
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel Barker
We are more like human BECOMINGS that we are human BEINGS.
What the future requires: (Jim Cathcart)
1. A tolerance for ambiguity
2. Staying in touch
3. A generic curiosity
4. A clear sense of what you care about
5. An unending exploration of your own nature
6. A desire to make life better for others
7. The willingness to do more than others expect of you
8. An optimistic outlook
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
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