Sam Wood Quotes

It never seems like a good idea to do something that's way out there. But usually, the thing that's way out there is where we are heading.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

I'm always that dude that's looking for the next thing.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

I always looked ahead.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

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

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.