I don’t think about the future. I don’t think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present. – Yoko Ono
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. – Wilma Mankiller
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag
Lord knows there’s a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education. – Thomas Friedman
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s. – Sylvia Earle
Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world. – Zalmay Khalilzad
I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It’s good to have a plan for your future; it’s even better to write your plan in pencil. – Tom Cotton
In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise. – Sher Valenzuela
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about. – Thomas Peterffy
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future. – Tania Raymonde
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. – Theodor Herzl
I think it’s very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you’re back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you’d join us as well. – Tim Scott
Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don’t sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something. – Sushant Singh Rajput
A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don’t look at it all. I don’t Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you’ve got something, that’s when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows. – Sean Maguire
We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom – that the rest of what’s happening, in any case, are steps. – Subcomandante Marcos
Simply cutting the taxes for America’s wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future. – Tim Johnson
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important. – Yuri Milner
I can’t control what’s going to happen in the future. I can’t control what’s going to happen in five hours. So I’m not really worried about it. I’m just focused on doing what I can at this moment. – Sam Bradford
I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it’s The Dark Ages? – Sheryl Lee Ralph
We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved. – Steve Crocker
Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life. – Suzan DelBene
The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future. – Thomas Frey