All of us make mistakes and one learns from the bitter lessons of the past.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn’t remembered.
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I’m working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It’s a conflict between two victims.
In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Human’s can’t live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human’s are always thinking about the future or the past.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
I was very weak in my childhood, and arthritis took a toll on me. But my parents did everything in their might to help me recover. Slowly, I started recovering from the illness, and I made a pact with myself that I would not let my past dwell on my future.
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
The discipline it takes to train and push past discomfort and continually grow through both trial and error and critique are things that translate really well into the process of running for office.
People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn’t break that perception.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
‘Carpe Diem’ is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We’re shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she’s had four major heart surgeries. She’s a candidate for – and must have – heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there’s never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Learn from the past, but don’t live there. Build on what you know so that you don’t repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company’s life.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
The word ‘crunk’ means energy. ‘Crunk’ is the past tense of crank. So if you crank something up, you are getting it started and getting it going. So ‘crunk’ is when it’s going… when it’s off the hook.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
The past is the past, but if you’re overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you’re gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.
Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium – and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
Many people repeat the past. I’m not interested. I prefer evolution.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
I don’t feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, ‘Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?’ I don’t beat myself up. Instead, I say, ‘I’m so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.’
The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
I’m inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern… and maybe that’s what I am.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it’s incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past – not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains – objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
