Tony Dungy Quotes

A nation has to look ahead.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

I always looked ahead.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

One who does not look ahead remains behind.

The long view counts.

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

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking

See things not as they are but as they might be.

We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.