“The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time — not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.”
Entry (1952)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
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Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quote in "Picasso", Hans L. C. Jaffe, Thames and Hudson Ltd
Attributed from posthumous publications
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
Vol. 1: 'My beautiful One, My Unique!', pp. 130-140
1895 - 1905, Lettres à un Inconnu, 1901 – 1905; Museo Communale, Ascona
“I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
Recorded by a reporter after Sitting Bull's retreat to Canada after being defeated in the Black Hills War, originally published in the New York Herald on November 16, 1877. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 190.
Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 <br class="br">1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
“Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.”
Brooke Fraser (1983) New Zealand singer and songwriter
"Albertine", in Albertine (2006)
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Truman Library address (2006)
Context: I believe we have a responsibility not only to our contemporaries but also to future generations — a responsibility to preserve resources that belong to them as well as to us, and without which none of us can survive. That means we must do much more, and urgently, to prevent or slow down climate change. Everyday that we do nothing, or too little, imposes higher costs on our children and our children’s children. Of course, it reminds me of an African proverb — the earth is not ours but something we hold in trust for future generations. I hope my generation will be worthy of that trust.