forward-looking mindset Quotes

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Present thinking people kill the future.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.