Top 1200 Forget The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.

When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

I like the idea of doing a little movie every week. When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it. I forget stories that happened on set. I forget who I worked with. I forget my lines, my characters' names. This is so fresh. We make it, and it's on TV. It feels more like a living, breathing thing.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past - or more accurately, pastness - is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past

You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you've got to take care of the present.

The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I always go into every fight trying to forget about what happened in the past, whether I won or lost.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.