Quotes about past
past focus toxic
When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past." Darren Johnson
past hands worry
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection? David Leavitt
past self objectivity
Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal. David Limbaugh
past people focus
I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live. David Levithan
past guarantees-that america
I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot. David Blunkett
past rights decision
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision. David Boies
past people done
I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past. David Blaine
past thinking europe
We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful. David Bowie
past
The past is our very being. David Ben-Gurion
past order giving
God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all. David Berg
past able events
We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.
past christian-inspirational miracle
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. David Wilkerson
past deny empowered
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. David Oyelowo
past mind conscious
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past. David Mamet
past worry world
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not. Ally Condie
past waiting pieces
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
past proud ashamed
You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it! Anthony de Mello
past years world
I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote." Angela Lansbury
past thinking issues
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together. Angela Davis
past differences people
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences? Anne Perry
past world superstitions
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice
past fire vision
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt
past waiting trapped
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. Anna Freud
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past discovery ideas
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts. Andre Weil
past long way
I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward. Andrea Arnold
past men body
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. Andre Maurois
past men eggs
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
past trying ankles
In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be Andrew Flintoff
past history historian
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. Ambrose Bierce
past mirrors too-much
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
past yesterday age
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
past feet stuck
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis