Shaping Future Quotes

Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world.

You are called upon to remake history.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

It’s in our interest to shape the world around us.

We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

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

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

What is past is prologue.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

One faces the future with one's past.

I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.

The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.