Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hamel

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Gary Hamel

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Gary Hamel

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every past is worth condemning.

Jerry Bruckheimer

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

Jerry Brown

The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

Jennifer Aniston

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

Jeanne Phillips

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Jeanne Moreau

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

Jean Henri Fabre

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Jean Froissart

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Jean Monnet

Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

Graham Swift

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Giacomo Casanova

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All the past is not worth one today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Ian Mcewan

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

Ian Fleming

It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

Hugh Howey

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

Hugh Hefner

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Hugh Hefner

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

Horace Mann

To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Jerry Glanville

If he'd have got to 3 and 4, he'd have been fine, ... But you had to get past 1 and 2.

I couldn't throw anything past him. It was the first time I'd seen him hit, and he was impressive. It was a show.

I don't think they're necessarily better than some past administrations in terms of the spin. What they have done which distinguishes them ... is how close-mouthed they are.

Hunter S. Thompson

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Hunter S. Thompson

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Hun Sen

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Hu Shih

Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

Hu Jintao

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.