Quotes about past
past skills accomplishment
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments. Michael Korda
past people decision
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason. Michael K. Simpson
past forgiving looks
There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually. Marianne Williamson
past your-future your-past
Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
past forgiving remember
To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
past forgiving moments
The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
past miracle rooms
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
past love-is choices
The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.
past our-past
Our past is not our potential. Marilyn Ferguson
past fire black-history
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. Martin Luther King, Jr.
past civil-rights excuse
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
past america justice
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
past examination vices
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. Mark Udall
past discipline assuming
Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.
past light blink-182
The past is only the future with the lights on Mark Hoppus
past church urban
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. Mark Batterson
past opportunity building
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
past thinking healthy
I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.
past imagination breaths
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life. Marguerite Duras
past far-away
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. Marguerite Yourcenar
past parent advice
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. Miguel de Unamuno
past thinking littles
If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red. Ned Vizzini
past opportunity thinking
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?' Nathan Myhrvold
past idols people
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me. Naima Adedapo
past europe things-change
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. Nadine Gordimer
past people immigration
When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally for the rest of their life. That's going to only encourage more people to come here illegally. Mitt Romney
past enemy president
I understand the anger Americans feel today. In the past, our presidents have channeled that anger and forged it into resolve, into endurance and high purpose, and into the will to defeat the enemies of freedom. Our anger was transformed into energy directed for good. Donald Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes.
past differences president
While I'm on foreign soil, I - I just don't feel that I should be speaking about differences with regards to myself and President Obama on foreign policy, either foreign policy of the past, or for foreign policy prescriptions.
past looks
I look at the past and I see myself. Miriam Makeba
past animal people
In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
past may live-in-the-present
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. R. D. Laing
past thinking law
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree. R. Buckminster Fuller
past forget-the-past forget
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. Publilius Syrus