All Quotes By Tag: Future

“The future is only bright if you start lighting candles now.”

“You have to decide if what you want now is worth more than what you want for the future.”

“Start today; your future self will thank you.”

“When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!”

“Don’t let negative thoughts of the past or the future ruin your today.”

“What you do now builds your future later.”

“Let every moment be a chance to ask “Will this action serve me?” Let your actions now benefit your future.”

“There’s no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We’re all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy — what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer — in the 1860’s he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don’t have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. (“Gary Shteyngart: Finding ‘Love’ In A Dismal Future”, NPR interview, August 2, 2010)”

“The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses ‘the means at hand,’ that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogenous—and so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been said that bricolage is critical language itself…If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one’s concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur.”

“If you design a compelling future, it’s easier to push yourself because your vision will pull you.”

“Doing the best we can manage in the present moment is the pathway to a beautiful future.”

“If you could speak to yourself 5 years from now, what would your future self ask you to prioritize?”

“Clinging onto the past won’t make you move into your future fast.”

“Clinging onto your past won’t make you move into your future fast.”

“To build a beautiful future, focus on your dreams and not your past.”