Top 1200 Past Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Generally speaking, I am not interested in the future and don't believe in it. First, I guess it is true that I don't trust the future, but, more to the point, I don't even trust the "myself" of tomorrow, nor, for that matter, of the day after. Basically, all I know, and all I am capable of understanding, is the "me" that is here, now, the "me" that has dragged his past with him to this point.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of the past, when we can just go forward seamlessly into a future of ever-new products and ever-new experiences - even though they're exactly the same, just on a watch instead of on a phone or whatever.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

If I'm too busy looking in the past, how can I see what's in front of me with the future?

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.