Past Vs Future Quotes

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

I'm not about the past. I'm about the future and focusing on what you want in life.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.

The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.