A Quote by Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Susanna Moore

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Past Task Understanding

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Susanna Moore
American - Writer
Born: December 9, 1945

Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.

Philippos Syrigos

To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

Gayle Pemberton

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

Jack Kornfield

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

Marshall Goldsmith

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan D. Vinge

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

Edward Hallett Carr

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

Robert Breault

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

Walter Cronkite

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Ann Druyan

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

Dara Horn

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

Noah Hathaway

I continue to learn about myself, about my past, understanding energy between people, understanding my own energy, being healthy.

Metta World Peace

The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

Zygmunt Bauman

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

Ariel Durant

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.