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Wednesday Colloquium #7: The Future
Janis Joplin: Tomorrow never happens.
Isaiah Hankel: People would rather be unhappy for ten years than be uncertain about their future for ten minutes.
Jaron Lanier: A promise belongs to someone in particular or it is nothing.
Richard Rohr: An eagerness and readiness to love is the ultimate freedom and future.
Kathleen Norris: Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Neal Maxwell: Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
Rabindranath Tagore: Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
C.H. Spurgeon: Do not fritter away your life in thinking of what you intend to do tomorrow as if that could recompense for the idleness of today.
Andy Rooney: One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
The Son of Man: Don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Harriet Martineau: Today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Dale Carnegie: Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
C.H. Spurgeon: That fatal tomorrow is blood-red with the murder of fair resolutions.
C.W. Lewis: The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: Everything you do changes your future.
Jacob Burckhardt: From time to time a great event, ardently desired, does not take place because some future time will fulfill it in greater perfection.
Neil Gaiman: Futures are huge things that come with many elements and variables, and the human race has a habit of listening to the predictions of what the future will bring and then doing something quite different.
Thomas Jefferson: I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Ivar Hillesland: Invest in the future of the present moment.
Earl Wilson: An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen.
Doug Murren: Joy is being in control of how I think about my future.
Samuel Johnson: The future is purchased by the present.
Roger Babson: Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Sir William Osler: Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
A.J.P. Taylor: Men project the dangers of the present into the future; they do not foresee the dangers that actually occur.
Jamie Buckingham: Most people find their future in the past. Successful people build their future in the present by being present.
C.S.Lewis: Not all the times that are outside the present are therefore past or future.
Charles De Gaulle: Nothing lasts unless it is incessantly renewed.
Thomas Friedman: People who don’t think about the future tend not to do well there.
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: The biggest danger is the future.
Patrick Rothfuss: The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Winston Churchill: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
William Bridges: The future is not delivered like the morning paper; the future comes looking like something else.
A.J.P. Taylor: The great question of the future is whether mankind will turn against the scientists before they succeed in blowing up the planet.
Andreas Karkavitsas: The past, no matter how glorious, is of no use to anyone who disdains the present and disregards the future.
Terry Pratchett: There’s no better present than a future.
Darrell Waddell: This moment is the most important because it is the point of decision for the future.
Peter Giuliano: To have willing and committed followers, you have to define some place to go. It has to be anchored in the needs of the people that you’re seeking to convert into followers because you’re asking them to stake their future on what does not yet exist.
John Prine: We are living in the future, I’ll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper fifteen years ago.
William Stanley Merwin: We are the echo of the future.
Neil Gaiman: What speculative fiction is really good at is not the future but the presenf,
a southern jumprope song: Tomorrow never come.
