Courses Quote by Ada Leverson Download Open image “The Futurists?… Well, of course, they are already past.” — Ada Leverson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courses Futurist Past Time Wells
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again. — David Autor Copy Share Image
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous. — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I also realize… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image