Mohsin Hamid Quotes

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

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

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!