Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

I'm very interested in architecture.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

We need architects to be visionaries.

Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

I think we need ideas for the future.

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they're shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation.

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.