Top 1200 Leaving The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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

To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The more you know the person, the harder it will be to empathize. Diagnoses and past experiences can instantly knock you off the board. This doesn't mean denying the past. Past experiences can stimulate what's alive in this moment. But are you present to what was alive then or what the person is feeling and needing in this moment?

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

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

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

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

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

Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?

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

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

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

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

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

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the 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 love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

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.

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

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

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of 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.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.

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

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

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

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 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

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

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

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

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

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment.

I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

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

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

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.