Future Past Quotes

Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future. ~ Russell Eric Dobda

For every minute, the future is becoming the past. ~ Thor Heyerdahl

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. ~ Alex Rodriguez

History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future. ~ Runoko Rashidi

The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity. ~ G.K. Chesterton

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow. ~ Will Advise

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about. ~ George Allen, Sr.

I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future. ~ William J. Clinton

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles. ~ Julia Quinn

How can we prepare for the future if we won't acknowledge the past? ~ N.K. Jemisin

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future. ~ Rita Levi-Montalcini

Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself. ~ Mary-Jean Harris

For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future. ~ Alison Gopnik

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future. ~ Condoleezza Rice

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing. ~ Ian Gawler

It is clear, then, that the desire for certainty shapes our spaces of possibility, our perceptions, and our lives both personally and professionally. Usually, this need saves us. But it also sabotages us. This produces an ongoing tension between what we might think of as our conscious selves and our automatic selves. To overcome our inborn reflex that pushes us to seek certainty (sometimes at any cost), we must lead with our conscious selves and tell ourselves a new story, one that with insistent practice will change our future past and even our physiological responses. We must create internal and external ecologies that… celebrate doubt!
This means the biggest obstacle to deviation and seeing differently isn't actually our environment as such, or our" intelligence, or even - ironically - the challenge of reaching the mythical "aha" moment. Rather, it is the nature of human perception itself, and in particular the perceived need for knowing. Yet the deep paradox is that the mechanisms of perception are also the process by which we can unlock powerful new perceptions and ways to deviate. Which means that mechanism of generating a perception is the blocker… and the process of creating perception is the enabler of creativity ~ Beau Lotto

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future. ~ Ai Weiwei

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants. ~ Andrew Lau

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. ~ Thomas Hobbes

I shall not dwell in the past ...
I shall not dread the present ...
I shall not fear the Future ...
For as Long as I live ...
I shall only think of success. ~ Oscar Trejo Jr.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963] ~ John F. Kennedy

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction
even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. ~ Kage Baker

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future. ~ Nick Baylis

But now isn't simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until - later of sooner - perhaps - no, not perhaps - quite certainly: it will come. ~ Christopher Isherwood

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. ~ Wendell Phillips

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. ~ Lajos Kossuth

The future is just a projection of the past. ~ Vivake Pathak

There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. ~ Elsa Peretti

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. ~ Matt Ridley

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~ Antoine Rivarol

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future. ~ Zig Ziglar

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. ~ Vladimir Horowitz

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! ~ David Lynch

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ~ Patrick Henry

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future. ~ Byron Katie

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future. ~ Milton H. Erickson

Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past. ~ Dennis E. Adonis

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. ~ Alan W. Watts

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change. ~ Joel A. Barker

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future. ~ Patti Smith

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future. ~ Frederic Martel?

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. ~ Edgar Quinet

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere. ~ Winston Churchill

One shouldn't live in the past, Parker. You'll smack into something in the present looking backward and not get a clear view of your future. Trust me. ~ Kelly Moran

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you. ~ Raf Simons

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. ~ Pope Francis

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future ~ Nobuyoshi Araki

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have. ~ James Salter

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future. ~ Taylor Swift

Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives ... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future. ~ Bill Crawford

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now. ~ Marina Abramovic

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future. ~ Chris Guillebeau

The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future. ~ James Gleick

Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show. ~ Dierks Bentley

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings. ~ Lee Smolin

I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only opportunity to make tomorrow a success. ~ Oscar Bimpong

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding ... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. ~ H.G.Wells

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future. ~ Nicholas Sparks

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future. ~ Konrad Adenauer

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future. ~ Jeff Greene

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. ~ Lou Reed

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ John Buchan

Past and future monopolize the poet's sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today. ~ Andre Breton

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

The best prophet of the future is the past. ~ Lord Byron

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s. ~ Jet Li

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind. ~ Thomas Hobbes

We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future. ~ Kate Skylark

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. ~ Michael Mandelbaum

DIE in the past. Live in the future. ~ Mina Loy

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. ~ Ben Okri

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. ~ Harold Macmillan

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future. ~ Nhat Hanh

You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past. ~ Julie-Anne

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. ~ Louise Leakey

Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future. ~ Robyn Bavati

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past. ~ Simon Sinek

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer. ~ Gunter Grass

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future. ~ Joyce Meyer

The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible. ~ Wynn Bullock

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. ~ Martin Seligman

The great and rare mystics of the past ... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future. ~ Ken Wilber

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future. ~ Adrian Rogers

Dwelling on the past and worrying about the future will only rob you of the present's joy. ~ Stacy A. Padula

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future. ~ Vanessa L. Williams

The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace. ~ Michel Houellebecq

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. ~ Bill Crawford

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past. ~ Gladys Hasty Carroll