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- I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.
- Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
- You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- ...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
- I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
- Unknown, (attributed incorrectly to James Madison)
- I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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