Future Impact Quotes

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

One of the hardest things in politics is getting a democracy to deal with something now where the payoff is long term or the price of inaction is decades away.

I was a policy office in my final tour in the Navy, a Russian policy officer, and we were always thinking about our interactions and how they would affect the country 10, 20 years from now.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

My job is to make sure that 10 and 15 years from now, people aren't going to say, 'Oh, do you remember Merck?'

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Time will change who is in power.

I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.

Genius appeals to the future.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.