Top 100 Quotes About Forward Thinking
#1. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel
#2. I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.
Mark Billingham
#3. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.
Paul Roetzer
#4. There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
Michael Eisner
#5. I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
J. Michael Straczynski
#6. At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions ... all good things.
Peter Diamandis
#7. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
Jenna Fischer
#8. I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
Terry McAuliffe
#9. Forward thinking doesn't just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That's why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.
Meg Jay
#10. Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas
T.D. Jakes
#11. Forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#12. I came away with the impression that this guy was either the most forward-thinking finance expert on the planet, or a crack smoker who simply placed his hands on the keyboard, attached electric stimuli to his genitalia, flipped the switch, and started typing.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#13. It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion
Phil Harding
#14. A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
Reid Hoffman
#15. Despite his image as a bloody tyrant, Genghis was also forward thinking. His empire had the first international postal system, invented the concept of diplomatic immunity, and even allowed women in its councils. But more importantly, the Mongols were also unprecedented in their religious tolerance.
James Rollins
#16. The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.
Deborah Day
#17. Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
Bill Frist
#18. Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking.
Richard Ford
#19. Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.
Pearl Zhu
#20. You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
Bill Joy
#21. To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world
Umm Zakiyyah
#22. Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.
Jenny Hval
#23. The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.
Dean Heller
#24. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
Julie Warner
#25. Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.
Francisco Costa
#26. I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#27. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
Georges St-Pierre
#28. Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors
Michael Meacher
#29. The materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand ... Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.
P. Harding
#30. What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc's original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let's face it, if you're forward-thinking and you're dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone.
Neil Denari
#31. Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe that if you can design them on a computer, you should be able to print them out.
Stephen Hawking
#32. Part of the reason forward-thinking media networks like Twitter succeed is because people3 want to believe that every immaterial thing they do is pertinent by default; it's interesting because it happened to them, which translates as interesting to all.
Chuck Klosterman
#33. Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.
Jeff Coffin
#34. Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
Christopher Bond
#35. I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
Paul Kantner
#36. My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.
Patricia Montandon
#37. He took one step forward, thinking to run after the carriage, to run mad, madder than he already was.
Eloisa James
#38. It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.
Kristin Cashore
#39. That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.
David Mandel
#40. At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.
Thorsten Heins
#41. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.
Rachel Notley
#42. You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.
Zig Ziglar
#43. I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.
Joe Dumars
#44. Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can't just think 'I'm going to die anyway', because that's what's stopping us from moving forward.
Queen Latifah
#45. Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.
Steven Kotler
#46. Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.
Dave Eggers
#47. I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.
Anton Yelchin
#48. Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.
Pearl Zhu
#49. I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
Bobby Hull
#50. I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.
Paul Randall
#51. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.
Jay Asher
#52. I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
Damian Kulash
#53. I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.
S.J. Kincaid
#54. What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.
Kristi Noem
#55. I know that when things are at their worst, something better is just around the corner if we just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#56. You cannot move forward if you are always thinking backwards
Bathsheba Dailey
#57. I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.
Vince Vaughn
#58. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.
Maude Barlow
#59. Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
Matthew Henry
#60. If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.
J.M. Synge
#61. People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.
Mark Zuckerberg
#62. I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
Anthony Trollope
#63. Only a positive mind can move the world forward.
Pearl Zhu
#64. Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.
Charles M. Schulz
#65. Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'
Conan O'Brien
#66. I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.
Alexander Ovechkin
#67. Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
David Fleming
#68. I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.
Bill Ayers
#69. I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.
Eve Ensler
#70. Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.
Joe Hill
#71. The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
You don't have to learn your destiny
you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
Martha Beck
#72. The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C.S. Lewis
#73. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#75. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
#76. Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.
Bernie Sanders
#77. If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.
Swami Vivekananda
#78. Let us march past the flag of the past, saluting our achievements', pondering over our mistakes and thinking of the lessons for the way forward as we march forward to a great tomorrow
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. How you define an event produces emotion
and determines how you feel going forward
Derric Yuh Ndim
#80. If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.
Miranda Kenneally
#81. I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
Ken Livingstone
#82. I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."
Michael J. Fox
#83. I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#84. Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.
Demi Moore
#85. Talk to people about what our real choices are ... Our way works better ... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.
William J. Clinton
#86. For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night ... I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet ... I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.
Barbara Kingsolver
#87. I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.
Holly Black
#89. Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.
Lauren Kate
#90. I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly ... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!
Carl Jung
#91. I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.
Richard Branson
#92. If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
C.S. Lewis
#93. I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.
Mickalene Thomas
#94. I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Raymond Berry
#95. Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.
Elisabeth Murdoch
#96. I think the person who has the experience, the depth and the values to take us forward is Theresa May who I think will be absolutely outstanding.
Jeremy Hunt
#97. Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
Peter Diamandis
#98. What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.
Edith Sitwell
#99. I'm not sure we will have every single Democrat ... but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
Charles Schumer
#100. Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.
Bernie Sanders
