Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

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.'

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.