Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All tradition is merely the past.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all...

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jeremy Siegel

It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

Jeremy Rifkin

The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

Jenna Blum

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Richard Lugar

Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough,

Paul Arden

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Pat Benatar

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Julia Mancuso

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

Joseph Simmons

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

Leonard Slatkin

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Oscar Wilde

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Paul Reiser

I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

Paul Gillmor

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

Patrick Rothfuss

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Pastor Maldonado

That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past.

Park Geun-hye

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Padmasree Warrior

As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.

Paloma Faith

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

Lev Grossman

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Lev Grossman

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.