Future Time

There surely are other factors too, for example lower future-time orientation (and a greater desire for immediate gratification) among the poor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is quite unlikely that a person of Ms. Lewis 'verbal intelligence could form the abstract cognitive' bridge 'from present-time to future-time that would be necessary to any but the simplest planned activities or ends. ❋ Bianca Jagger (2010)

The Anglo-American cultural perspective is future-time oriented, or "nextness" oriented, to use a phrase coined by cultural diversity expert Tom Kochman. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The bad thing about being a slave to the rigors of a future-time orientation was that work dominated everything else. ❋ Philip Zimbardo (2008)

Solutions are not easy to come by, but generally I would suggest that staff meetings involving members of both cultural traditions have fewer items on the agenda, to satisfy the present-time orientation of some participants, and that given the reduced agenda, time allotted for each item be respected to satisfy the future-time orientation of others. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In essence, my future-time perspective turned the paradise that is Stanford University into a bleak Bronx basement laboratory where I was both Dr. Frankenstein and his time-bound monster. ❋ Philip Zimbardo (2008)

Sun's flash-forward fake-out seemed to close out the first act of Lost's future-time story line: identifying the members of the Oceanic 6, the celebrity miracle survivors of Oceanic 815. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Low in future-time perspective: The person may not look forward to the future. ❋ Philip Zimbardo (2008)

In an ever expanding “de-cluttered” spacetime, the density decreases exponetially to the expansion, thus at a single point in an accelerating future-time, the “big rip” appears out of the vacuum? ❋ Sean (2008)