Top 1200 Looking At The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!

I don't want to keep looking back in the past. I want to move forward.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.

Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!

The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.

You can't afford to be lazy in this business, and in the past I've used all the travelling and the hotels as an excuse not to stick to exercise regimes and looking after myself.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

When I interview people that want to work with us, I often disregard their resume, because a piece of paper, it doesn't tell me really who they are. I'm looking for honesty, vulnerability. I'm looking for strength, I'm looking for weakness. I'm looking also for someone that wants to learn and is excited about learning.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

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?

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I'm not looking at Venezuela. I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.

My life is like driving down a road. I occasionally glance in the rearview mirror, but I'm not focused on the past or looking back anymore.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.