No Time Like the Future Quotes

“With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.”
― Michael J Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Carry on. If you’re going to do something, just do it.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame. I don’t attempt to erase it, only to accept it. Whatever my physical circumstances are today, I will deal with them and remain present. If I fall, I will rise up. As for the future, I haven’t been there yet. I only know that I have one. Until I don’t. The last thing we run out of is the future. Really, it comes down to gratitude. I am grateful for all of it—every bad break, every wrong turn, and the unexpected losses—because they’re real. It puts into sharp relief the joy, the accomplishments, the overwhelming love of my family. I can be both a realist and an optimist. Lemonade, anyone?”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“So much of what’s important in life seems to sneak up on me. So much time and energy invested in getting ready to go someplace, and then getting there, that the sensation of being there is a revelation.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future. I hear echoes of Stephen Pollan in that advice: With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“I try not to get too New Age-y. I don’t talk about things being “for a reason.” But I do think that the more unexpected something is, the more there is to learn from it.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“If you don’t take risks, there’s no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“I was happy as a clam. But who wants to be a clam?”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“ANTIGONISH BY WILLIAM HUGHES MEARNS Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away …”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“People are not always as advertised.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“As much I’d like to,”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Positivism is a state of mind one achieves, and I am presently an underachiever.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“The last thing we run out of is the future.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Good things can come from bad things.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“The core lesson Stephen left with me was this: With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“The guides explain that it’s our collective enormity that protects us—as long as we stay in the vehicles, the leopard doesn’t recognize a group of humans; rather, he regards each truck as a single entity, a giant monolithic beast, too big to mess with.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Risk is a part of who I am; it is encoded in my DNA. Teenagers lack a fully formed prefrontal cortex; they can’t reliably assess risk. I was the poster boy for this developmental delay. Anxious to prove that my physical stature was not reflective of my intestinal fortitude, I was game for anything. In my teens, I engaged in reckless activities (I didn’t consider them risks), and sought adventures—diversions that could have easily resulted in failure, bodily injury, and quite possibly, premature death. But I wasn’t thinking about any of that.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

“Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn’t get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people’s growing consumption, it’s not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable.” Fellow Traveler The secretary introduces me to another government minister, a fortyish gentleman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.”
― Michael J. Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality