Top 1200 Worrying About The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

You can't think about the past anymore.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

I don't think about my past or future.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

I do not worry about the past. I move on.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

My life is not just about the past.

Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

I do think a lot about the past.

You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.