Past Quotes
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
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.
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.
People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.
