John Dewey Quotes

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

You have to ask yourself, what are the things that matter to you most in your life? If you have to have a latte every day that'snice to have right now, but if you take that latte every day right now, you may wind up eating cat food when you are 70. And you have to decide which is worse.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.