"The Future is What We Choose to Make", World Maker Faire, New York (September 2013) http://fora.tv/2013/09/21/the_future_is_what_we_choose_to_make
Context: We want to make things. We want to make things with our hands. We crave it. It sparks something in us, feeds our urge to create. That's why were here.
The future will be what we choose to build. We choose to build what we believe in. It's always been that way. A small group of people choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. In that order. They choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. That's the power of makers — the power to choose a new future, by believing, and making.
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
“We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
“We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.”
On The Washington Journal of C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?124979-1/the-trek-beginning (11 June 1999)
1990s, 1999
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.
“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 46.
“Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.”
From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land Donker, 1981, p. 164
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
Variant: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
