Bre Pettis Quotes

The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I believe you have to make things happen.

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

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

Even if you're not ready to live at your full volume, turn it up halfway and get there.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

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

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!