Peter Eisenman Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

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.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

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

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

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

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

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

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

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Reform that you may preserve.

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.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

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

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.