The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it.
The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.
I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.
Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.
The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.
I never envisioned being a rock star. I envisioned the stage. I would draw and draw and draw the stage, or the tour bus. It was much simpler.
I think about the next season right away.
The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.
The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.
