Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

My business is to prevent the future.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

The long view counts.

A nation has to look ahead.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.