Shimon Peres Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

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

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

Change is not always progress.

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

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

In life you cannot be captured by the past. If you're not prepared to change for the future, you will stagnate.

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

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

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

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

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