I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can and to help future generations learn new skills.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future that's the reality.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

When I wonder what the future of books will be I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed everyone had a horse. Then cars became available and their convenience compared to horses was undeniable.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Something I've realized lately to my shock is that I am an optimist in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life you can't think about a future without it so you hang on as long as you can.

If you want to have sustained joy you have to not only make sure that you think right but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

I think that in the future clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

I think that the present is worth attention one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of of this future or that future.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Of present fame think little and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living but they are nothing to the dead.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Most people are prisoners thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present and the present is where everything begins.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.