Past Experiences Quotes - Page 2

• The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Memories, Past, Mind

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

  Daniel Amen

  Past, People, Overcoming

  24 Copy quote

• Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

  Mark Zandi

  Running, Home, Past

  7 Copy quote

• Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Past, Simple, Class

  12 Copy quote

• If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Book, Past, Worry

  6 Copy quote

• Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Past, Destiny

  225 Copy quote

• The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

  David Eddings

  Wisdom, Past, People

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Past, Knavery, Way

  5 Copy quote

• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

  Hugh Prather

  Swimming, Past, Offering

  5 Copy quote

• My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

  Thomas Troward

  Moving, Mean, Past

  "The Wisdom of Thomas Troward".

  191 Copy quote

  Show source

• Based on past experience, I hope not.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Past

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

  Sue Augustine

  Hard Times, Past, Yesterday

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Past, Data

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

  David Hume

  Past, Experience, Principles

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Light, Years

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

  Valerie Solanas

  Mother, Past, Males

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Past, Thinking, Lakes

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

  5 Copy quote

• An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

  Anjelica Huston

  Past, Actors, Minutes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Past, Dysfunction

  13 Copy quote

• The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Past, Self

  4 Copy quote

• The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Past, Mind, Experience

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

  Julian Simon

  Past, Years, Giving

  43 Copy quote

• When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Kind, Given

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.45, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

  Show source