To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. Charles J. Givens
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. Mika Waltari
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. Margaret Fuller
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us. Robin Gibb
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. Garth Brooks
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off. David Mitchell
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. Barbara Boxer
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. Michael Morpurgo
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. Michael Morpurgo
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. Terry Eagleton
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. Joseph Beuys
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. Andrew Wiles
I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. Minoru Yamasaki
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? Clyde Tombaugh
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future. Danielle Steel
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. Samuel Alexander
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. Gene Oliver
The future is keeping you out of the present time. Van Morrison