Issey Miyake Quotes

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

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

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

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

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

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

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

The world is evolving, and we must evolve with it.

Think about the past to learn, but move forward.

I try and move with the times. If I stop and begin thinking about the past there will be a problem.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.