Top 1200 Lessons Of The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

From this moment forward…I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed. The parents standing close by are rocked by the truth of the experience - a truth powerful enough to dislodge deeply entrenched beliefs. For observers removed from the actual event - even those just reading about it - reports of a child's past life memory can jostle the soul toward new understanding. Children's past life memories have the power to change lives.

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.

It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

I feel like, in football, you always have to prove yourself as well. The past is in the past. Last season was last season.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

It was a winning team and there were lots of important footballing lessons that I learned in Juventus.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

When we let in two goals it's good for us to take some lessons from that, grow from it and move on.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.