Edward T. Hall Quotes

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

We short history; the Chinese long history.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.