Barack Obama Quotes

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

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.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

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.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

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

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

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

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

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.

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

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.