Thinking About The Future

The moment that you

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 … Read more

The purpose of thinking

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

We live in the

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. Dwyane Wade

When thinking about the

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity’s lot has improved dramatically – in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years. … Read more

Thinking about the future

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

We need to start

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. Bill Gates

In terms of fiction,

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. Annalee Newitz

I never think of

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

Marriage is an effort

Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.
Rajneesh

There are two kinds

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.
Rajneesh