Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

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

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

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

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.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

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

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

Ultimately, progress and innovation win.

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

Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age movie, but not wanting it to feel like a period piece completely about nostalgia but wanting it to feel like something that was relevant today and also forward-looking.

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

We can't look for greatness in the past.

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

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.