I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.
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.
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.
Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.
One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.
The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
Be the change you want to see.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.
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.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.
It seems like people don't learn from the past.
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.
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