Quotes 61 till 80 of 503.
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Lunar Park (2010) 204 -
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Composers are always going back to the past.
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Confess yourself to heaven; repent what's past; avoid what is to come.
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Create your future from your future not your past.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.
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Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
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Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
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Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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