3 December 2020 Marilyn Ferguson Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
3 December 2020 Gustav Stresemann In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
3 December 2020 Annie Leibovitz I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
3 December 2020 Martha Beck My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
3 December 2020 Larry David I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
3 December 2020 Andy Griffith You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
3 December 2020 Mike Royko The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It’s an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
3 December 2020 Sparky Anderson People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.
3 December 2020 Donald Pleasence I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum 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.
3 December 2020 Fred G. Gosman The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.
3 December 2020 David Mitchell As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can’t take off.
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
3 December 2020 Gene Tierney I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
3 December 2020 Junior Seau The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.
3 December 2020 Dean Acheson The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
3 December 2020 Ulysses S. Grant Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
