Top 1200 Lessons Of The Past Quotes & Sayings

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

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

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

There is no part of like that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

Know that you can move past things that have happened to you and that healing takes time. Take the lessons you learned in the past and hold them close, but move forward and try not to get trapped in what was.

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar lessons, and piano lessons.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

All of us make mistakes and one learns from the bitter lessons of the past.

As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past. Our Heavenly Father gave His Son. The Son of God gave His life. We are asked by Them to give our lives, as it were, in Their divine service. Will you? Will I? Will we? There are lessons to be taught, there are kind deeds to be done, there are souls to be saved.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned?

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

You will be Presented with Lessons: You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum

I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.