A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas. - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed. ― Steve Goodier

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV. - Robert Del Naja

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Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch. — Joe McNally

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

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Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. ― Elon Musk

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