Quotes about past
past rejected all-the-best
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. Barbara Corcoran
past effort lists
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.
past media average
I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
past player thinking
Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things (about them) are better than they were in the past. I don't think (coaching today's players) is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different. Avery Johnson
past what-matters giving
It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath. Ashley Judd
past long mass
The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now. Ashley Greene
past lambs lefties
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
past average years
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. Benjamin Graham
past light years
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.
past gold commodity
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
past years different
But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.
past kind happened
The past is a kind of future that has already happened. Bruce Sterling
past
Every passing year brings us more past futures.
past blue jeans
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn. Bruce Springsteen
past daily-experience
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
past limits knows
You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.
past accomplishment people
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
past today results
The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.
past personality would-be
My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.
past path charting
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past. Brad Henry
past guitar typical
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody. Brad Paisley
past surprise archivists
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. Brad Meltzer
past years gone
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, Brad Feld
past foxes culture
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 Jacobs
past people window
Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way. Jane Goodall
past rushing water
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.
past doors dizzy
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. Camille Paglia
past rome hopeless
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
past reality years
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
past years feminist
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
past years radio
As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor. Casey Kasem
past hitting might
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. Casey Stengel
past genius opinion
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past. Carl Icahn