Top 1200 Thinking About The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

That's what drives me on, being frightened to fail. The past is in the past. I never think I'm safe.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that's when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

Thinking about making a love story without music was really frightening, Sciamma admitted. Because every love story we know, we think about 'Titanic' we think about the music, we think about 'Gone with the Wind' we think about the music, we think about 'E.T.' we think about the music, and every love story has its own tune, 'That's our song.'

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

I've always watched the Hall of Fame speeches. Thought about what I would talk about if I ever was up there. But I don't wake up in the morning thinking about wanting to be in the Hall of Fame. I really don't.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

What you're thinking about is what you are being.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.