We Learn From Our Past Quotes

#1. The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Adam Garcia

#2. Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

Aida Overton Walker

#3. If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

Vincente Minnelli

#4. Churchill - "Love to learn - hate to be taught.

Winston Churchill

#5. Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Carol Berg

#6. In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

Walt Kelly

#7. We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

Joe Torre

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

Sarah Van Waterschoot

#12. Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

Robert Matsui

#13. 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

#14. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. Edgar Hoover

#15. 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

#16. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.

Gudjon Bergmann

#17. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#18. It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right?

Abi Ketner

#19. We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#20. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

Shinjo Ito

#23. Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

Sue Augustine

#24. We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Carl Levin

#25. We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Margaret MacMillan