Jay Samit Quotes

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.