I Learn From The Past Quotes

#1. I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.

Lena Karynn Tesla

#2. Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

Rachel Boston

#3. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Lorraine Heath

#4. My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.

Donald Trump

#5. They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

Reece Thompson

#7. My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

Ethan Hawke

#8. The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

Katt Williams

#9. By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it's good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future. If we don't examine the past, we don't learn from it.

R.J. Palacio

#10. Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

Woody Allen

#11. I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

Grace Gealey

#12. You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.

Tiger Woods

#13. I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

Richard Holbrooke

#14. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.

Amy Harmon

#15. I could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

Azar Nafisi

#16. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#17. I can learn from the preachers of the past, and should; but I must not be a slavish imitator of them.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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

Donald J. Trump

#19. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers

Unknown

#20. But I can't erase the past, only learn from it. It's ok. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be.

Kamal Ravikant

#21. The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

Giuseppe Zanotti

#22. I can't erase the past, only learn from it.

Kamal Ravikant

#23. I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel.

John Boyne

#24. I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period ... I like to learn from the past ... not 'live' in it.

David Coverdale

#25. I might be many things, but I am also smart enough to learn from the past. Smart enough to know that no man who oozes so much alpha male will be happy with a woman who isn't weak. Or, he won't settle until he makes me weak, and I will never be that bitch.

Harper Sloan

#26. I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Chris Pine

#27. I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

Deepak Chopra

#28. There's nothing to say. The past is in the past for a reason. You either choose to learn from it or repeat it. I was never one to read a book twice and I won't do the same with my life."

Siva

Micalea Smeltzer

#29. What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

Wallace Stegner

#30. During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

Lindsay Lohan

#31. I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

Rand Paul

#32. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

Marlo Morgan

#33. I say we must learn from our past so that we do not make the same mistakes in our future.
Search of the Lost

Thomas R. Gaskin

#34. Oh yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or learn from it.

Rafiki

#35. We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

Otto Frank

#36. You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones ... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Pierre Omidyar

#37. I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

Molly Ringwald

#38. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.

Wiley Cash

#39. I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#40. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

L.M. Fields

#41. I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.

Kenneth De Guzman

#42. I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

Cary Elwes

#43. I cannot change the decisions that I have made in the past, but I can learn from them and make the most of the life that I am living now.

Christa Cervone

#44. But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Lauren Bacall