The future will be the child of the past and the present even if a rebellious child.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative or in thinking in my creative life is that you could easily argue that the past the present and the future all occur simultaneously and if you can postulate that then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

The strange thing about Africa is how past present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz if you like.

Creation is all space all time - all things past present and future.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am and I move on while thinking of these things.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past the present and the future that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past in complaining of the present in fearing future.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

In rising financial markets the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present but only for the future where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

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.