Quotes about past
past paris people
In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet. Paul Weller
past challenges trying
But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
past people historical
We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with. Martin Schulz
past emotion pursue
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. Martin Seligman
past prisoner
We're not prisoners of the past.
past certain young
The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you can make the present and the future. It's how you process the past and at oftentimes in the picture, there are references to certain imagery from certain pictures, and certain novels. Martin Scorsese
past thinking our-world
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
past matter coaches
When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there. LaVell Edwards
past know-yourself
You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself. Laurie Simmons
past thinking ideas
I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
past way ifs
The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it. Laura Miller
past haunting determined
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
past years roots
I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years. Laura Marling
past knowing foundation
The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been. Laura Lippman
past wind tree
Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain. Lance Armstrong
past dividing
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what? Laini Taylor
past joy sorrow
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. Nikolai Gogol
past looks astonishment
I was happy, I knew that. 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 realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis
past goal effort
Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. Nikola Tesla
past men law
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
past rainy-day rushing
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. Nicole Krauss
past player years
In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural. Nasser Hussain
past men issues
In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy. Nas
past banking bankers
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
pasta bread life-is
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. Monica Seles
past reality men
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being. Mircea Eliade
past koalas has-beens
I must have been a koala in my past life. Miranda Kerr
past entrepreneur special
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. Mignon McLaughlin
past careers people
Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past. Johnny Mathis
past self use
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act. John Wooden
past important spend-time
I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
past doors yesterday
Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.
past dwelling dwelling-on-the-past
Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.