Quotes by Future Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind. Robertson Davies futureviewslife A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded. Roger Babson futuresuccesscharacter Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. Rosabeth Moss Kanter who-we-arefutureassumption The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North. Ross Gelbspan carbon-emissionsfuturelatin While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. Ronald Reagan futureinspirationpast If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet. Rusty Schweickart futureimpacttechnology The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies. Rusty Schweickart futurespaceearth Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict futurefaithmemorable What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. Sai Baba futureinspirationalpast Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming. Sally Ride futuremoonthinking The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson futuretruth Never make forecasts, especially about future. Samuel Goldwyn forecastsfuture Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. Rumi futureworshipforget And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge futureappreciationteacher It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. Samuel Johnson forbearancefuturemay Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors. Santiago Ramon y Cajal futurepainscience Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know' Sara Parkin futuremeanpeople Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems Sara Parkin support-systemsfuturepeople They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present. Samuel Johnson futurelittleslooks The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude Satish Kumar futuregratitudeair«3839404142434445464748»
