Quotes about past
past leader inspire
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask. Peter Drucker
past looks seems
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. Peter Benchley
past fiction tricky
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. Penelope Lively
past perception suits
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
past years privacy
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.
past identity needs
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
past years play
No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing. Peggy Noonan
past thinking mind
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho
past forget feels
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.
past people different
Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me. Marnie Stern
past color light
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down. Marisha Pessl
past two today
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after. Marjane Satrapi
past careers goal
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. Mariah Carey
past talking matter
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate. Megan McCafferty
past thinking who-i-am
I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.
past thinking better-person
I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.
past yesterday reactions
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can. Max Lucado
past forget-the-past forget
God forgets the past... Imitate Him..
past destiny voice
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
past rights abuse
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. Max Baucus
past opportunity practice
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. Maurice Strong
past needs management
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
past space soul
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it. May Sarton
past years wrinkles
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
past democracy done
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
past months radical
One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface, Matt Mullenweg
past decision knees
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee. Mayim Bialik
past order names
I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life. Maya Lin
past easier has-beens
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure. Maynard James Keenan
past history ifs
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been. Maya Angelou
past way forget
To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become. Matthieu Ricard
past mind looks
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.
past meditation leaving
In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.