Past Quotes
We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise
Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
