Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Nothing is ever behind us.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

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.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.