Kanye West Quotes

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing

Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.