Past Quotes - Page 44

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

Remembrance of things past.

Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.

These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.