Jimmy Hill Quotes

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

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

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

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

I don't look back on history. I want to look forward to the future.

We can't be beholden to the past.

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 don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

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

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

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

I'm tired of talking about where we've been. I'm more interested in talking about where we're going.

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

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

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

In a business, you've got to move on.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'