History vs Present Re: Future

It is said that "If you don't know where you are coming from, you will never know where you are going." This may be so to some extent, but it misses out an a critical axis in the whole getting to the future and reaching goals effort: the present.

Can one move swiftly from knowings one's past straight into the future? Unless you have access to some magical time machine, the answer is an obvious "No."

I think I have a new theory about the Present"
"If you don't accept where you are now and in each present continuous moment, you will never get anywhere."