John Eaton Quotes

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

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

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.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

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.

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

The Past, The Present, For the Future

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.