My Past Quotes

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

There have been only 268 of the past 3, 421 years free of war.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

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

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person be generous of spirit be the person you'd admire.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past you just know what his plans are.

You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.