Future Thinking Quotes

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

People who think about the past have no future.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense.

I like to live in the future.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

I don't really like to think too far ahead when it comes to the music.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.