Top 1200 Things Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

I think I'm generally quite good at being able to put things in the past and let them go, as it were.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

You have pundits and fans from other teams who will say loads of things and it goes past me. That's life.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Because I'm my parents' daughter, and get attention from things I've done in the past, that probably goes over people's heads.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

In the past, I would let things get to me and been much more emotional, both positive and negative.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.