forward-thinking approach Quotes

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

I am never one to disappoint. When I decided to invest I decided to bring the club forward. I am ready bring new ideas, vision and investment to the club.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.

America's creative approach to solving the problems the country is faced with, its openness and open-mindedness which make it possible to unleash the potential of the people. I believe that largely due to these qualities America has made such tremendous strides in its development.

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.