Colson Whitehead Quotes

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

It's a brave new world.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished 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.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

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

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Only dreams give birth to change.