- Nov 07, 2020
Past Quotes
Looking back to understand what comes next.
This collection of past quotes includes a mid-20th-century physicist's assessment of the atomic-age power balance between Europe and the Anglo-Saxon powers, alongside a separate scientific note on how measurement affects what can be known about earlier moments. Both sit alongside a simpler idea: building your future apart from your past. Related themes appear in our Truth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
- Better Player
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously you try to learn from the past and your mistakes and how you can become a better player as well as a better person.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
- Grander
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?
- Crafting
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- Nov 07, 2020