Thinking About The Future Quotes

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn’t been done yet. That’s kind of my constant obsession.

Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

We live in the moment. We’re not thinking about the future right now. We’re not thinking about the past, you know. We’re living in this moment right here and it’s a sweet moment to live in.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool’s imagination. I don’t think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don’t think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

I am still not taking my “career” in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Humans can’t live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it’s a veil of tears, man. I don’t know anything that’s going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

Your future depends on what you do today.

The moment that you have a child – that you know that when he’ll turn 18, he’ll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service – then you can’t help yourself of thinking about the future – speculating about it, dreading it or even being – trying to be more active to change it and improve it.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That’s what makes me feel whole.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.

In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell’s novel Arctic Rising.