Looking At The Past Quotes:

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Managing Time

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Learning, Health, Men, Looking At The Past, World History

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

- LaToya Jackson

topic: Family, Dream, Real, Looking At The Past, Loving My Family

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Mean, Past, Understanding, Looking At The Past, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

- Diana Ross

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Past, Order, Years, Looking At The Past

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

- Danica Patrick

source: "Texas: Post race press conference - Patrick, Andretti". Firestone 550K Post-Race Transcript, www.motorsport.com. June 5, 2010.

topic: Moving, Past, Able, Looking At The Past

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

- Zoe Leonard

topic: Past, Desire, Be Here Now, Looking At The Past, Present Tense

My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.

- Patrick Seguin

topic: Artist, Past, Quality, Looking At The Past, Retrospective

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

- Ruth Cracknell

source: Ruth Cracknell (1997). “Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir”

topic: Gratitude, Art, Past, Looking At The Past

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

- Selima Hill

topic: Dream, Moving, Writing, Looking At The Past, Stiff Neck

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

- Martha Graham

topic: Past, Rocks, Chairs, Looking At The Past, Rocking Chairs