100+ Looking Ahead Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Senator Jim Jeffords Leaves GOP, Handing Senate to Democrats". "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, archives.nbclearn.com. May 24, 2001.

topic: Issues, President, Fundamentals, Looking Ahead

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

- Charles M. Vest

source: "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

topic: Education, Believe, Technology, Looking Ahead

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

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Life, Hate, Past, Looking Ahead, Past Life

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Graduation, Ideas, Next, Memorable Graduation, Life After High School

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

- Taylor Swift

source: Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

topic: Thinking, Live Your Life, Looks, Looking Ahead

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Motivational, Karma, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

- Denzel Washington

source: Denzel Washington's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almanac.upenn.edu. May 16, 2011.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Looking Ahead, Commencement

Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

- Michael Uslan

topic: Education, Doors, Dust, Pick Yourself Up, Looking Ahead

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Student

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

- Jonathan Winters

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Success, Crazy, Famous Inspirational, Celebrate Success, Looking Ahead

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Graduation, Exercise, Reason, Memorable Graduation, High School Graduation

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

topic: Graduation, Education, Inspire, Looking Ahead, College Graduation

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.479, Random House

topic: Education, Hands, Inspire, Looking Ahead, Senior Graduation

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere." "That's not true!" "It is," he said. "I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're-" "Closed in," Michael said. "Trapped," Shane added. "Idiots," Claire finished.

- Rachel Caine

topic: Girl, Thinking, Voice, Looking Ahead, Pulling

Having said that, I`ve got to tell you, looking ahead, it`s like these storms coming in over the pacific that`s we feel in the press corps.Because you look at a campaign, which was a war on the media - that was at the heart of Donald Trump`s campaign, where if he banned certain outlets from coming to news conferences, every day he attacked the dishonest press, he pointed the finger, he called out reporter by name and attacked him.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: War, Heart, Media, Storms Coming, Looking Ahead

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

- Robert Orben

source: "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

topic: Funny, Graduation, Education, Master Ceremony, Grad

I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!

- Polixeni Papapetrou

topic: Love You, People, Looks, Looking Ahead

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

- Rajneesh

topic: Creativity, Ambition, Writing, Looking Ahead, Ambitious Man

Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Dark, Men, Feet, Looking Ahead

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

- Loudon Wainwright III

topic: Eerie, Old Habits, Next, Looking Ahead

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Cute, Children, Skills, Social Skills, Carnegie Mellon

To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

topic: Real, Over You, Be Who You Are, Looking Ahead, Real Questions

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

- Ayn Rand

topic: Romantic, Hair, Self, Leaning Back, Looking Ahead

I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

- Allan McNish

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Thinking, Mirrors, Texting, Looking Ahead, Texting And Driving

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

- Brendan Fehr

source: "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

topic: Kids, Looks, Down And, Looking Ahead

Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Book, Years, Play, Looking Ahead, Radio Plays

Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.bicyclecards.com

topic: Taken, Journey, Impossible Things, Looking Ahead

It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.

- Tim Purpura

topic: Running, Home, Player, Looking Ahead, Versatility

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it