Futuring Quotes & Sayings

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. — Ambrose Bierce

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love. — Confucius

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? — Brenda Blethyn

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. — Mark Burnett

Can often be confused with," he looked me dead in the eye, "lust. — A&E Kirk

The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. The same royal consciousness that make it possible to implement anything and everything is the one that shrinks imagination because imagination is a danger. Thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one. — Walter Brueggemann

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community — Tony Blair

On the hills and in the valleys and along swampy shores, hunters hunt wolves, deer, and wild ducks. Let us hate them, not because they kill but because they enjoy themselves.
May our facial expression consist of a wan smile, like that of someone who's about to cry, a far-away gaze, like that of someone who doesn't want to see, and a disdain in all its features, as when someone despises life and lives only to despise it.
And may our disdain be for those who work and struggle, and our hatred for those who hope and trust. — Fernando Pessoa