You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'. It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.
The future will be different if we make the present different.
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!
It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.
I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.
Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, each of us can become clean and the burden of our rebellion will be lifted. Remember, repentance is not punishment. It is the hope-filled path to a more glorious future.
The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.
We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.
Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.
If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life. '