Quotes and Sayings About Past

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
-- Andre Malraux

#Art #Past #Culture

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-- Andre Maurois

#Happiness #Business #Past

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.
-- Andre Weil

#Past #Issues #Discovery

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
-- Andrea Corr

#Happiness #Children #Past

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.
-- Andrea Jung

#Believe #Past #Thinking

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.
-- Andreas Osiander

#Past #Principles #Way

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Past

IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Art #Past #Being Real

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
-- Andres Iniesta

#Soccer #Past #Idols

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be
-- Andrew Flintoff

#Past #Trying #Ankles

You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable
-- Andrew McMahon

#Blessing #Past #Eight

Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.
-- Andrew McMahon

#Stars #Quilts #Past

If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?
-- Andrew McMahon

#Mean #Past #Thinking

It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.
-- Andrew McMahon

#Lying #Past #Mountain

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
-- Andrew McMahon

#Past #Interruptions #Pleasant

What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.
-- Andromeda Romano-Lax

#Memories #Past #Order

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Past #Spirit #Film

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Past #Anchors #Literature

Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.
-- Andy Andrews

#Running #Passion #Past

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.
-- Andy Andrews

#Moving #Responsibility #Past

The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.
-- Andy Andrews

#Past #Hands #Mind

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!
-- Andy Andrews

#Past #People #Voting

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
-- Andy Andrews

#Past #Forgiving #Able

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Art #Past #Years

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
-- Andy Griffith

#Past #Reality #Thinking

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
-- Andy Samberg

#Past #Night #Parent

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
-- Andy Summers

#Past

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
-- Andy Summers

#Past #Nostalgia

I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.
-- Andy Tobin

#Gay #Past #Issues

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
-- Ang Lee

#Hate #Past #Made