Quotes & Sayings About Envisioning The Future

The leader is the organization's top strategist ... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there. — Bill Hybels

Diverting one's attention from the past was not the same as envisioning and embarking upon a future. On the other hand, if the past were razed, the slate wiped clean, maybe fewer people would confuse it with the future, and that at least would be something. — Richard Russo

Throughout their seven years of marriage, they had conducted their lives by different clocks. She dwelled as much in the future as in the present, envisioning where she wished to go, relentlessly mapping the path that ought to lead to her high goals. Her strong mainspring was wound tight. Neil lived in the moment. To him, the far future was next week, and he trusted time to take him there whether or not he planned the journey. They — Dean Koontz

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future. — Dan Harris

I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present. — Catherine Clark

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not. — Jhumpa Lahiri

We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us.
It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present. — Guillaume Faye

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future. — Piper Kernan