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
Quotations
Future
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
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
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
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
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
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?"
