"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
Barack Obama
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
Nikola Tesla"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
Marcel Pagnol
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
Warren Bennis"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note."
Hank Stram"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'"
Nicole Kidman
"Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip."
Jon Bon Jovi"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
Henry Miller
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
Alan Watts"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."
Marilyn Ferguson
"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy."
Jeff Bezos"Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith."
Thomas S. Monson
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."
Jane Addams
"In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing."
Adam Rex"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well."
Kailash Satyarthi"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."
Eckhart Tolle
"I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken."
Jose Andres"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
Billie Joe Armstrong"Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future."
Ahmed Zewail
"We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction."
Atifete Jahjaga"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Winston Churchill"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
Albert Ellis
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
Marcus Aurelius"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles Kettering
"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
George Santayana"Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. -Kim Jong"
un"The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future."
John Delaney
"Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is."
Annie Lennox"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."
Jim Bishop"Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future."
Charles B. Rangel
"Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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