- Memory
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- 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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020