Past Matters Quotes

#1. It's a memoir of various events in my own life, but it's also a teaching book: along the way I explain the writing decisions I made. They are the same decisions that confront every writer going in search of his or her past: matters of selection, reduction, organization and tone.

William Zinsser

#2. The past, I mean the real past, matters less than we pretend.

John Banville

#3. The past matters. but only as a reference point untuk tengok sejauh mana kita dah berubah

Hlovate

#4. No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Kieran Scott

#5. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Italo Calvino

#6. Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

Leon Brown

#7. It doesn't matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. The past can't be changed," she said. "The future can't be predicted. All we really have is the present. So none of that matters to me.

Olivia Cunning

#9. All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can't foresee.

Austin V. Songer

#10. Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#11. It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.

Wallace Stevens

#12. The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in," said Shams as if he had read my thoughts. "Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Elif Shafak

#13. I believe the present matters
not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms
a false perspective. - Hilda Lee

Agatha Christie

#14. The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset.

Amit Ray

#15. Rehashing thoughts of painful events from the past or imagining negative events of the future is self-abuse and can be more destructive than physical harm.

Maddy Malhotra

#16. -No- I swallowed past the fear in my throat- But I'm afraid of fucking it up.
- We all fuck things up, Gav. it's how we fix them after we've broken them matters.

Kenzie Cade

#17. Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#18. You're here. You're real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you're becoming. The past you can't change. The future is what matters.

David Walton

#19. The past is done, and we can't change it. All we can do is try to be better. What really matters is who you are now.

Cindi Madsen

#20. That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.

Kat Howard

#21. Most of us spend time consumed by various matters, living in the past or the future instead of concentrating on the present.

Gayle EileenCurtis

#22. Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#23. The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#24. As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.

J. Allen Hynek

#25. But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.

Agatha Christie

#26. I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter

#28. Point of view matters: I see that now, blind, talking to myself, trapped in a coffin falling past the edge of the solar system. I

Peter Watts

#29. What's past is past, nothing to do but smile through teeth that have been kicked in; only the future matters, the decisions you make from this moment on.

Ralph E. Vaughan

#30. Past and future is determined by what is now ... right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.

T.F. Hodge

#31. Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

Pushpa Rana

#32. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

#33. I can't just open myself up the way some people can. And down here, you're raised a certain way. You're taught to keep some things private, family matters especially. It's just the way it's done."

"Everyone worships the past but no one really wants to talk about it.

Cathy Holton

#34. Do you have a favorite team?"
He smirked. Literally smirked.
"There's only one New York team."
Alexa fought past the nausea and asked the question.
"Which one?"
"The Yankees, of course. It's the only team that wins. It's the only team that matters.

Jennifer Probst

#35. We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn't matter just as much, Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

Gala.J

#36. Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Jackie Kennedy

#37. It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.

Chuck Klosterman

#38. What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute.

Deb Purdy

#39. But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

Stephen Harper

#40. Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

Orson Scott Card

#41. Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

Shoghi Effendi

#42. There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

#43. Some people who visit my century home on the lake often comment on the billboards that obscure part of the view. I often tell them to look past the bad to see the good. Just like life. It's what we see and how we see it that matters.

Lynn Hones

#44. anxiety is out of place in the present moment. It depends on the past and the future for its existence. This understanding matters if you hope to let go of your struggle with anxiety.

Kelly G. Wilson

#45. Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

William James

#46. It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.

Shelly Crane

#47. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

Mike Van Hoozer

#48. The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

Joyce Meyer

#49. You had me," she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. "I did," he agreed. "But the past isn't what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you.

J.M. Darhower

#50. At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.

Kemi Sogunle

#51. 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.

Sai Baba

#52. Although the House Intelligence Committee report claims to be the definitive statement of the House of Representatives on matters of Benghazi and intelligence, interviews over the past week make clear that it's not even the consensus position of Republicans on the committee.

Stephen F. Hayes

#53. Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty must be prove every day, in each piece of fresh-kill brought back to the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session.

Erin Hunter

#54. Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

Terry Brooks

#55. Only the future matters, Sora. Guilt is an illusion, a way of lingering on the past. You can't change what happened." He held her eyes , carving himself into her mind. "You are alive. That is what you should worry about. Your thoughts can torture you - but not the dead. They've moved on.

T.L. Shreffler

#56. In his arms I've finally found the place I've been looking for, where fear can't touch me, where memories can't reach, where the past is forgotten and the present is enough. Where the present is, in fact, all that matters.

Sarah Alderson