The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Begin with the end in mind.
I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Property, once recognized, gave rise to the first rules of justice; for, to secure each man his own, it had to be possible for each to have something. Besides, as men began to look forward to the future, and all had something to lose, every one had reason to apprehend that reprisals would follow any injury he might do to another.
It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.
My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
You have to build businesses for longer term.
I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on.
