Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Brian Tracy

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.

Brad Henry

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Paisley

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Brad Meltzer

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

Brad Feld

Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,

Jane Jacobs

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

Jane Goodall

Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

Jane Goodall

Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.

Alanis Morissette

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Blaise Pascal

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Billie Burke

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Billie Piper

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

Billie Holiday

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

Bill Gurley

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Keaton

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Diane Keaton

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Denis Kearney

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Demosthenes

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Denis Hayes

We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.

Deana Carter

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Dean Ornish

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

Dean Koontz

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Daniel Handler

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Daniel Handler

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Craig Kilborn

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

Craig Ferguson

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.