Paulo Freire Quotes

I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.

I always looked ahead.

As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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

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

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

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.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

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

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

I want to talk more about the future than 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!

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.