The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.
I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
Off the top of my head, I can't really think of anyone who really took me under their wing. You get advice from everyone. Kate Moss once said to me, "Don't worry about the past, just keep going. " That has always sort of stuck with me.
Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.
I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.
I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.
We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.
Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
. . . one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.
The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.
My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie. " And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.