We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong it represents a loss of a billion dollars perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right it is the future of this company for the next century.

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.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to and the last duty done.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible how doomed the present is.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The past is an old armchair in the attic the present an ominous ticking sound and the future is anybody's guess.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism economic inequality is real and growing.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

America which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today hardly stops to enjoy it in her insatiable appetite for the future.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present future or past either.

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

To me living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

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.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Life is a culmination of the past an awareness of the present an indication of a future beyond knowledge the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

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.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

The future is purchased by the present.