Future Present Quotes

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ~ Dan Quisenberry

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ~ William Gibson

The Future is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present? ~ Jeanette Winterson

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go. ~ Stefanos Livos

I wrote a trilogy out of order and then rearranged it, because the whole of life is like that
a cut-up
and when you cut into the present, the future leaks out. ~ Chris Campanioni

The future depends on what you do today. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. ~ John Naisbitt

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire

... if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection; the private, and we must accept this, and it's a hard thing to accept, the private is gone. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. And if you're thinking how awful these sentiments are, you are perfectly correct, these are awful times, but you must remember as well that this has always been the chiefest characteristic of the Present, to everyone living through it; always, throughout history, and so far as I can see for all the days and years to come until the sun and the stars fall down and the clocks have all ground themselves to expiry and the future has long long shaded away into Time Immemorial: the Present is always an awful place to be. ~ Tony Kushner

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future. ~ Robert Walser

Isn't it better to wake up each day, living for the present rather than waiting for the future? ~ Julie C. Dao

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last ~ Charlie Daniels

You have a right to change your present if it doesn't fit with the future you envision. ~ Karma Brown

We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present. ~ Jody Hedlund

Today will die tomorrow. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

The future begins today. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well ~ Sunday Adelaja

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind. ~ Baron D'Holbach

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? ~ Arundhati Roy

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven. ~ Bryant McGill

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. ~ Gregory Bateson

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. ~ Iris Murdoch

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present. ~ Nicolas Roeg

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. ~ John Maynard Keynes

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

The future is purchased by the present. ~ Samuel Johnson

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~ Pope John Paul II

The future crashing into the present like a wave. ~ Erin Morgenstern

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. ~ Simone Weil

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future. ~ Donella Meadows

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. ~ Albert Camus

Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward. ~ Douglas Coupland

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. ~ Catherine Booth

I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations. ~ Christopher Lee

The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the dinosaurs. ~ Rex Resurreccion

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own. ~ Lauren Beukes

Your words determine who you are and who you want to be. ~ Salma Issah

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. ~ Charles Darwin

It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present. ~ Curious George Brigade

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly ... Back in the day Leo Tolstoy
what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer
in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010) ~ Gary Shteyngart

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way. ~ Kevin Brockmeier

The future is no more uncertain than the present. ~ Walt Whitman

Change the present then the change the future. ~ Matthew Donnelly

There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one ... ~ Jasper Fforde

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

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present. ~ S. N. Goenka

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. ~ George Eliot

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children aren't just our future. They're our present. ~ Ricky Martin

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. ~ Nikola Tesla

The Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ... nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love ... ' ~ Muhammad Asad

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. ~ Paul Mooney

Smile because it over now, worry about the future later, be positive wherever you go :) ~ Karen Tinoco

While you are serving someone else, God is working out your future ~ Sunday Adelaja

Each minute offers us an opportunity to identify concerns, and make changes for the better. All we have to do is be willing to take the risk. So my future? It's not miles away, it's a minute from now. ~ Scott Hildreth

Foreseeing the future, I would later learn, means nothing if there is nothing to be done to prevent it. ~ Leslye Walton

To live more voluntarily is to live more deliberately, intentionally and purposefully - in short, it is to live more consciously. We cannot be deliberate when we are distracted from life. We cannot be intentional when we are not paying attention. We cannot be purposeful when we are not being present. ~ Duane Elgin

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. ~ Alexander Shulgin

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. ~ Jim Rohn

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. ~ Beryl Markham

Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. ~ John Dryden

Whatever your present circumstances, my sincere prayer is that this book may help you to do the following: Believe and experience daily God's infinite love for you. Hear when God is speaking to you. Identify God's unmistakable activity in your life. Believe Him to be and to do everything He promises. Adjust your beliefs, character, and behavior to Him and His ways. Identify a direction He is taking in your life, and recognize what He wants to do through you. Know clearly how to respond to what He shows you. Experience God doing through you what only He can do. ~ Henry T. Blackaby

Laura tingle: "So it's not jut that we see Gillard as a backstabber who brought down an elected prime minister, it is that we see her as the very reason we have minority government. Gillard has become the embodiment of a crushing number of uncertainties and disappointed expectations, both about politics and Australia's future, which makes voters uncomfortable -and in some cases angry. ~ Laura Tingle

The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
Swift Antelope to Amy in Comanche Heart ~ Catherine Anderson

My dear, dear ladies," Sir Francis effused as he hastened forward, "what a long-awaited delight this is!" Courtesy demanded that he acknowledge the older lady first, and so he turned to her. Picking up Berta's limp hand from her side, he presed his lips to it and said, "Permit me to introduce myself. I am Sir Francis Belhaven."
Lady Berta curtsied, her fear-widened eyes fastened on his face, and continued to press her handkerchief to her lips. To his astonishment, she did not acknowledge him at all; she did not say she was charmed to meet him or inquire after his health. Instead, the woman curtsied again. And once again. "There's hardly a need for all that," he said, covering his puzzlement with forced jovially. "I'm only a knight, you know. Not a duke or even an earl."
Lady Berta curtsied again, and Elizabeth nudged her sharply with her elbow. "How do!" burst out the plump lady.
"My aunt is a trifle-er-shy with strangers," Elizabeth managed weakly.
The sound of Elizabeth Cameron's soft, musical voice made Sir Francis's blood sing. He turned with unhidden eagerness to his future bride and realized that it was a bust of himself that Elizabeth was clutching so protectively, so very affectionately to her bosom. He could scarcely contain his delight. "I knew it would be this way between us-no pretense, no maidenly shyness," he burst out, beaming at her blank, wary expression as he gently took the bust of himself from Elizabeth's arms. "But, my lovely, there's ~ Judith McNaught

There is no future in it, Will Henry," he said pensively. "The future belongs to science. The fate of our species will be determined by the likes of Edison and Tesla, not Wordsworth or Whitman. The poets will lie upon the shores of Babylon and weep, poisoned by the fruit that grows from the ground where the Muses' corpses rot. The poets' voices will be drowned out by the gears of progress. I foresee the day when all sentiment is reduced to a chemical equation in our brains - hope, faith, even love - their exact locations pinned down and mapped out, so we may point to it and say, 'Here, in this region of our cerebral cortex, lies the soul.' ~ Rick Yancey

Whenever you have a clash of opposites in your being and neither will give way to the other (the bush will not be consumed and the fire will not stop), you can be certain that God is present. We dislike this experience intensely and avoid it at any cost; but if we can endure it, the conflict-without-resolution is a direct experience of God. A ~ Robert A. Johnson

We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future success. But the universe does not have our own best interests at heart, and to assume for a moment that it does, ever did or ever might is to make the most calamitous and hubristic of mistakes. ~ Iain M. Banks

My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn't yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up. And Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of just showing up. Showing up, to me, means being present to what is real, what is actually happening. Mary Magdalene didn't necessarily know what to say or what to do or even what to think when she encountered the risen Jesus. But none of that was nearly as important as the fact that she was present and attentive to him. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus. ~ Max Lucado

This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation. ~ Eric Kierans

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year. ~ H.W. Brands

Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making. ~ Caitlin Doughty

If. If. If this all happened! I, F, - he had to hang on to those two little letters, just one tiny two letter word. If. So much hope and dread hung in the balance on those two little blips in the alphabet! A chasm in fact! ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

The future of your children is depending on you voting for the Green Party. ~ Steven Magee

Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office. His style of lecturing was as nearly perfect as can well be conceived; for it had all the simplicity which is so entirely suited to scientific discourse, while it partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did ... I have heard the greatest understandings of the age giving forth their efforts in its most eloquent tongues-have heard the commanding periods of Pitt's majestic oratory-the vehemence of Fox's burning declamation-have followed the close-compacted chain of Grant's pure reasoning-been carried away by the mingled fancy, epigram, and argumentation of Plunket; but I should without hesitation prefer, for mere intellectual gratification (though aware how much of it is derived from association), to be once more allowed the privilege which I in those days enjoyed of being present while the first philosopher of his age was the historian of his own discoveries, and be an eyewitness of those experiments by which he had formerly made them, once more performed with his own hands. ~ Henry Peter Brougham

The only treasures we keep are our experiences...never stop traveling, exploring, living in the present moment!! ~ Aniket Ketkar

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born! - RVM. ~ R.v.m.

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. ~ Shinzo Abe

A meaningful future in America. This was something that James apparently had a hard time imagining. ~ Beverly Haviland

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future. ~ Joel Osteen