Top 1200 Lessons Of The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

One of the key lessons I learned at Netflix was the necessity of focus.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

I'm definitely not the person to be giving anybody dance lessons.

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

After the attacks on September 11th, we all learned lessons.

My view is that you show Messi one side or the other, and if he goes past you, he goes past you. But if he slips it through your legs, then you have to obstruct him and take the foul. Just don't ever let yourself be nutmegged.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have taken guitar lessons.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.