Quotes of: Forget-the-past Keyword

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Peter L. Berger

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Marc Andreessen

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Jacques Barzun

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

William Bernbach

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

King Hussein

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

Tony McCoy

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Annie Besant

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Bo Bennett

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Ben Okri

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Conor McPherson

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

Ivica Dacic

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John F. Kennedy

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Jet Li

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Jill Lepore