Napoleon Hill Quotes

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

The long view counts.

I only remember the future.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

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

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.