Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
Lil Wayne
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
Amanda Harlech
FutureMomentPastEyePresentKeep
Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.
French Montana
RelationshipMyselfDayPastMan
A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.
Miriam Shor
TimePastMeKindOutIn The Past
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen
LivePastPeopleBandOverRising
Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.
Nyle DiMarco
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
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In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
James Gleick
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For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
Robin Wasserman
MyselfPastTeenMeLookPlace
The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.
Denise Morrison
WorkPastForwardWaySameGoing
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
PastGenerationNextIn The Past
When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'
Jessica Williams
PastMeNightWake UpThinkingYou
To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.
Linda Colley
PastPoliticalUnionsYearsIceland
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
WorkAgeMemoriesHistoryTimePast
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
Erich von Stroheim
WomanPastManSpeakLovedDead
I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.
Luis Suarez
PathPastI AmPeopleMeBelieve
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan
ChangeFuturePastMindThinking
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
Rick Perlstein
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With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one.
Gretchen Bleiler
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It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
Rod Stewart
PastMeWritingNowGonePhase
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.
Dorothea Dix
PastMemoryMindLearnUnderstanding
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
Susan Vreeland
PastHealingWorldFindSilentMuch
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
FailurePastMeWriteFailSense
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold Von Ranke
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