Anticipating the Future Quotes

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

I believe I was ahead of my time.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at somethingand much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, 'Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,' our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.

While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.

I'm a peripheral visionary.