Adam Johnson Quotes

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

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

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

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.

You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

We all use the future to escape the present.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.