forward-looking approach Quotes

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

There are a lot of things that are in the show that harken back to the old show, but I really wanted to resist doing a greatest hits. It was irresistible to do a greatest hits, but it was almost too easy. There are things that I know are still ahead of us, in the future of whatever Arrested Development brings.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.