Gene Oliver quotes

“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”
-- Gene Oliver

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“Every path serves a purpose.”
-- Gene Oliver

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“The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963

“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”

“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”

“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”

“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”

“I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.”

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”

“I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.