Top 100 Past Is Experience Quotes
#1. The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.
Mary Norton
#2. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Stephen Richards
#3. The answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
John Geddes
#4. The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
Glenn Gould
#5. Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato
#6. Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
George Herbert Mead
#7. My past is my wisdom to use today ... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver
#8. Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.
Siri Hustvedt
#9. Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.
Don DeLillo
#10. There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.
Aileene Mhar Jabarani
#11. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.
William Monahan
#12. The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.
George Harrison
#13. I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience."
"From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men.
Lisa Kleypas
#14. Happiness does not dwell in some past event or future experience. It is an emotion that can only be focused upon and enjoyed in the present moment.
D.S. Luca
#15. It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.
Teju Cole
#17. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.
Louise Hay
#20. I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past
Leo Rosten
#21. I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous ... The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
Terence McKenna
#22. This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom
#23. Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#24. Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.
Sara Sheridan
#25. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you. ... You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life.
Anonymous
#26. The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.
Deepak Chopra
#27. Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.
Jim Talent
#28. Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.
Sakyong Mipham
#29. A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
Walker Percy
#30. The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately
and against ordinary experience
vanished. The man contains
not the boy
but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.
Philip K. Dick
#31. A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
Nils John Nilsson
#33. One can never ever forget the one who they loved in their past and that to their First Love!!
'Whenever and whomever it was, your experience with your first love is etched into your memory forever..
Kumar
#34. O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.
James Russell Lowell
#35. Virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
David Hume
#36. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#37. It's quite a scary path to walk on,
When you have no one's past experience to lean on, or learn from.
It's all new and uncharted.
But nothing is finished unless it is started.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#38. The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function.
McLuhan CD-ROM
Marshall McLuhan
#39. I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.
Daniel Radcliffe
#40. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Edward Gibbon
#41. The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
Bruce Springsteen
#42. The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#43. Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad's regime will ultimately fall from the heavy toll of the horrors it has spawned. From past experience with such regimes, this scenario is unlikely to happen.
Ahmed Zewail
#44. The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.
John French Sloan
#45. A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.
Jim Starlin
#46. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#47. Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
Wendell Phillips
#48. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden
#49. The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.
Kamand Kojouri
#50. It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.
Charleston Parker
#51. The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.
Sigmund Freud
#52. I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.
Michele Vail
#53. To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
George Washington
#54. For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.
Vivian Gornick
#55. Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.
Larry Atchley Jr.
#56. Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
Milan Kundera
#57. Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
Gordon W. Allport
#58. Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you ... That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it ...
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#59. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present.
William S. Burroughs
#60. I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S. Truman
#61. There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
P.D. James
#62. Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
Jamaica Kincaid
#63. This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
Adyashanti
#64. By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
Thomas Hobbes
#65. Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.
Nicholas Boothman
#66. Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
David Mamet
#68. Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#69. For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience
Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
T. S. Eliot
#70. Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness - it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.
Irvin D. Yalom
#71. It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work
David Hume
#72. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
Herbert Hoover
#73. Get past all the emotions that come along with the experience and get to the important stuff. Recognize what it is that you want, put a game plan together and take those steps to making a quality choice.
Billy Kennedy
#74. The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#75. Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion - and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined.
Daniel Kahneman
#76. The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.
Kim Yuna
#77. We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.
Sydney J. Harris
#78. The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#79. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington
#80. 'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.
Philip Roth
#81. The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.
Michelle Malkin
#83. The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
Phil Lester
#84. The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities.
Paul Brunton
#85. The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett
#86. It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.
Terry Rossio
#87. You've faced horrors in these past weeks ... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
Tasha Alexander
#88. To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.
Debbie Ford
#89. Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Thomas Hobbes
#90. Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
Russell Targ
#92. Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.
Narendra Modi
#93. They make you powerful. Each line is a road traveled, an experience you had, whether it was good or bad. Each mark is proof of pain in the past, not the present. You are a survivor, you are a warrior.
T.M. Frazier
#94. Without clean water, we cannot experience optimum health, but by practically every public health standard issued during the past 50 years, humans have not experienced optimum health. One of the reasons for this fact is simple: the Earth's water is in crisis.
Elson M. Haas
#95. Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
#96. The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
Les Brown
#97. A revolution is called for, certainly. But not a political, an economic, or even a technical revolution. We have had enough experience of these during the past century to know that a purely external approach will not suffice. What I propose is a spiritual revolution.
Dalai Lama XIV
#98. The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
#99. I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.
Bertrand Russell
#100. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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