In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
The youth is the hope of our future.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.
You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me.
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out-it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.