People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can’t do. – Gretchen Rubin
In Future Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I’ll need a private plane to charter the international waters! – Godfrey Gao
The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company’s management team. – Gerard Arpey
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I’m at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. – Hart Crane
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. – Heather Brooke
Being part of the original ‘Star Wars’ generation, I have always known a dark future. – Greg van Eekhout
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence. – Hjalmar Branting
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. – Herbie Hancock
I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic. – Helen Suzman
I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present. – Harold Prince
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles. – Henry Paulson
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. – Hans Kung
I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it will almost be a requirement of all storytellers when they create games, how they can tell a more complex story without conflicting with the gameplay. – Hideo Kojima
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role. – Heinz Guderian
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. – Henry Kissinger
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – Garson Kanin
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country’s future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment. – Gina Rinehart
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks… and being able to eat the fish afterwards. – Gloria Reuben
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There’s a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying. – Hussein of Jordan
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn’t mean that we’re going to agree. – Hillary Clinton
As a kid, I didn’t need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself. – Greg van Eekhout
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. – Henri Frederic Amiel
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world. – Hamilton Jordan
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. – Henepola Gunaratana