“Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.” NeedsGivingDoePastOrderPresidentWorrySecurityConcernDemocraticDebtToneNational SecurityJoblessnessDeafBin LadenAssassinationOsama Bin Laden Author:Ron Fournier
“Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.” GivingWritingStatesPastOrderUnitedUnited StatesPlansTyrannyTyrantsFrighteningImperialismMutilation Author:Edward Said
“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.” GivingLongHomePastFallThreeWaterDarkLaughingEmotionalSceneSwimmingThree TimesDeep Emotional Author:Brie Larson
“The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.” GivingPastSufferingCausesPleasureMeditationEcstasyHinduismPerpetualKrishnaTransientArjuna Author:Frederick Lenz
“I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.” NeedsGivingLooksMadeStoriesPastSpiritRealizingMy FriendsGlassesCurrentsI RealizedRedemptionLife ExperienceOld FriendsTreasuredNew Relationship Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.” WayGivingUsePastSpiritualSpiritTurnsMistakeEssenceTreatsAngrySymbolsOur PastNegationConnotationWholesale Author:John Cowper Powys
“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.” IfsKnowsGivingBodyPastScienceAsksAbilityKnowledgeToolsAccountsOriginalsCumulative Author:C.P. Snow
“God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.” GivingWellsAblePastPurposeOrderLeftHappenedLogicEternityThings HappenHeavenlyHereafter Author:David Berg
“You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.” GivingMindStatesPastNextThis LifeState Of MindReincarnationBoostPast Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.” WayGivingShouldPastInterestDiscoveryRepeatsSomething NewCopiesDiscoveringMy PastDiscovering Things Author:Pablo Picasso
“When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.” PeopleIfsGivingSaidRealFactsPastFoundOppositesDuesScreensReal LifeMutualChemistryBerriesMutual Respect Author:Benjamin Bratt
“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsTwoWould BePastMovingUnderstandingSecretPiecesTeamWeaponsDeserveBasesMarketingEdgesStudiosCreditChessFantasticBoardsExecutivesDistributionBlakeAlways ThinkingMoving AheadSonyDeserve More Author:Amy Pascal
“Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.” IfsGivingYearsDoeReasonPastNaturalEconomicResourcesGuidesProportionExpensesFiniteSuppliesScarceNatural ResourcesPast Experiences Author:Julian Simon
“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.” IfsGivingShouldLongMomentsPastWorryShould HaveForgottenPresent MomentLong AgoOver The PastSkipAgonizing Author:Peace Pilgrim
“It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.” GivingYearsSelfBodyPastJoyCommonAttitudePracticeStudyShareMankindStudentsHigherDiseaseYogaEncouragementIllnessResistanceMotiveGuruDharmaMental AttitudePhysical BodyYoga PracticePower And Strength Author:Dharma Mittra
“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.” GivingBigsPastLeftForgetMistakeWorryGreaterAchievementOptimismPressesNobleCriticizeImprovingImproving YourselfTime LeftOptimism In Life Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.” GivingMomentsMotivationalPastJoyOpportunityChanceWorryMinutesMissingRegretAppointmentsChange For The BetterPeace And JoyMissed Opportunity Book:Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life Source: Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
“In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.” GivingTryingPastWorryToo MuchAnxietyGive MeStressfulAnxiety And Worry Author:Cam Gigandet
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.” GivingLongDoeDoneHelpingRunningPastSinAnswersHellObjectsCostDifficultyAskingForgivingDoctrineOfferingLong RunsForgivenAlasMiraculousWipeFresh StartCalvaryAsking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsRunningPastPleasureDregs Author:John Dryden