Top 100 Quotes About About The Past
#1. How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.
Ilchi Lee
#2. He used to believe that to forgive was to allow an offense to go unpunished. Now he finally understood that forgiveness was not about the past, but the future.
Sherry Thomas
#3. I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Vanilla Ice
#4. Get up in the morning and we decide to be either bitter about the past or happy
Carolyn Brown
#5. The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.
Peter Thiel
#6. I don't talk about the past.
Prince
#7. We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.
Lisa Mangum
#8. Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
Jet Li
#9. Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
Ken Loach
#10. Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
David McCullough
#11. Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
John Cleese
#12. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
Sigmund Freud
#13. One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics of historic preservation, the other being yanked towards a hopeful (bigger, brighter, better) future.
Winy Maas
#14. What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded
God knows how
in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.
J.M. Coetzee
#16. Thinking about the past is like digging up graves
Nathan Filer
#17. No sense in worrying about the past. It's not going to worry about you.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#18. Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
Robert Lowell
#19. You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
Ray Bradbury
#20. The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.
Geoffrey Barraclough
#21. If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.
John James
#22. God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.
David Berg
#23. When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope.
Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.
Paul Wilson
#25. To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
Stefan Zweig
#27. I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
Harold Prince
#28. Worrying about the past won't help. I can only deal with the present.
Joelle Charbonneau
#29. I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Paul Auster
#30. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#31. Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back
Marlon James
#32. We all write fiction when we write about the past.
Stephen King
#33. One thing about the past. It's likely to last.
Ogden Nash
#34. This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.
Patricia Monaghan
#35. That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
Colum McCann
#36. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#37. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.
Richelle Mead
#38. He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.
Graham Greene
#39. in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before
William Maxwell
#40. History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
Ken Burns
#41. Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
Paulo Coelho
#42. An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Tom Hopkins
#43. The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
Kate Williams
#45. I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
John Cale
#46. Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Oscar Hijuelos
#47. I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.
Maggie Tabberer
#48. History is the stories we tell about the past.
Thomas King
#49. And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.
Robert Plant
#50. Forget about the Past; Don't Worry about the Future; Live Today!-RVM
R.v.m.
#51. Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.
Gudjon Bergmann
#52. Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
Craig Groeschel
#53. I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
Arnold Palmer
#54. It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Charles Erwin Wilson
#55. He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.
Alan Russell
#56. The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
Larry Poons
#57. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.
Sanchita Pandey
#58. One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
Neil Young
#59. You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
Yvon Chouinard
#60. I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.
Barry Humphries
#61. Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!
John Di Lemme
#62. I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#63. History is what we read, write and think about the past.
Michael Howard
#64. Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
Harvey MacKay
#65. A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
Anthony Burgess
#66. A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.
Erin Hunter
#67. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass
#70. And right then I realised that she was right. The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?
Vicki Myron
#71. I wondered whether you and Mr. Locke had any recollection about the past.
I see now that we all suffer the same.
Nathan Reese Maher
#72. It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.
Gunnar Nelson
#73. Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.
Stephen King
#74. The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?
Alexander McCall Smith
#76. Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.
Jeff Bridges
#77. I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life.
Colleen Hoover
#78. Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.
Nathan Filer
#79. I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.
Zoe Trope
#80. What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?"
- "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough."
- Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
#81. The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.
Richard Bandler
#82. Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.
Abraham J. Twerski
#83. 'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#84. I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
Ice Cube
#85. How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?
Clayton Christensen
#87. I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
Frank Gehry
#88. There is a stillness about the past, a clarity, the way it had been somewhat defined and dissected, in the rearview mirror; it was there for the taking, for the mining.
Carrie Brownstein
#89. What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
Robert Nozick
#90. Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
Roberto Clemente
#91. Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.
Emily Giffin
#92. They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Isaac Asimov
#93. The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
E. Leo Foster
#94. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#95. You can Yell about the past or Dwell in the dark future. Both are sure to create hell.Rather let a Smile ring the bell Today.
R.v.m.
#96. Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.
Louise Hay
#97. it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.
John O'Toole
#98. It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past
Sunday Adelaja
#99. When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
Jack Welch
#100. Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential.
Ed Catmull
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