The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A liberal is a person who kept an open mind … a person who did not always look backward but would look forward to new possible solutions.
The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
I'm fifty years ahead of my time.
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.
Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
Genius appeals to the future.
You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.
O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.
One should look forward rather than backwards.
