Our Past Quotes - Page 23

• The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• 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

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• My past behaviour makes me cringe.

  Denise Van Outen

  Past, Behaviour, Cringe

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• Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

  William Osler

  Past, Weather, Helping

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• The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

  Grace King

  Real, Past, Way

  Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press

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• We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

  Will Rogers

  Past, America, Hot

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• What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Machines, Way

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.235, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

  Randy Weston

  Past, Visions Of The Future, People

  Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins (2015). “African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston”, p.298, Duke University Press

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• Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

  D. T. Max

  Mistake, Past, Discovery

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Past, Remember, Forget

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• You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

  Anthony de Mello

  Past, Proud, Ashamed

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• Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

  Alan Cohen

  Past, Your Past

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• 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

  Moving, Past, Degrees

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.45, Harvest House Publishers

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• I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.

  Valentino Rossi

  Humility, Hard Work, Home

  "I still have the strength to go head-to-head with my rivals". Yamaha Motor Intreview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

  Kevin Powell

  Past, Keys, Lessons

  "An Open Letter to Chris Brown" by Kevin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Matter, Painful

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• We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

  Daniel Beaty

  Past, Overcoming, Way

  Daniel Beaty (2014). “Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential”, p.69, Penguin

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• For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Imagination, Firsts

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• To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

  David Schlussel

  Moving, Past, Patterns

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• Our past has gone into history.

  William McKinley

  Past, Gone

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• To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Past, Self, Bridges

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

  Saint Augustine

  Mistake, Past, Needs

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• The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Thinking, Let Him Go

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Technology, Differences

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