Deepak Chopra Quotes

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Everything is going to change.

The future has no shelf life

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different