There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Quotations
Future
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
Do not worry about tomorrow, it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
-Jesus Christ
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?"
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-C. S. Lewis
