Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
People need to remember that I am the first black driver in F1, so I am obviously going to be different to past drivers.
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
We don’t want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.
Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We’re trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
I’m growing old, I delight in the past.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
I don’t think about my past or future.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Don’t trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Don’t hold on to the past; it won’t help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.
The past is always – one moment it’s what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it’s what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can’t predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.
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.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.
We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
I am happy that I am back and with a great project like ‘Vicky Donor.’ I have had a hard time in the past with ‘Johnny Mastana’ getting stuck but I hope this film brings positiveness into my life.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
Your past is something you cannot change. You can’t live it; it’s dead.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years.
I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.
In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren’t educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a ‘Reader’s Digest’ condensed book. Can you imagine?
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
Once you get past 100, it is all about not making a mistake.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I’m rolling in the feces of my greatest hits – that’s a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish – they speak to me – and the shells – they ring out to me.
For me, ‘The Kite Runner’ became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.
The fundamental dogma of Modernism – that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow – has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
