Creating the Future Quotes

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

What is the future you're creating right now?

The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

What you do today creates every tomorrow.

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.