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“Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.”

Two States Past Being True Persist Absent Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.”

Knows Made Helping Past Fall Language Know How Wonderful Masters Conventions

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

Pain Past Mistake Cry Tears Shed Echoes Ache Past Mistakes Life Mistakes

Author:Guy Finley

“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.”

Needs Art Past Accounts Sensations

Author:Angela Carter

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

Art Inspiration Past Artist Individual Results Education Study Talent Taught Art Is Tradition Deny

Author:Gustave Courbet

“You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.”

Past My Own Nostalgic

Author:Elvis Costello

“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.”

Matter Past Five Travel Europe Edges Tiny Invisible Aliens Canada Surround Continents Traveler Entering Whales Provinces Slipping Jonah Isle Belle

Book:The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society

Source: The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.”

Knows Men Wells Enough Facts Home Running Jobs Past Certain Know How Taken Broken Men And Women Woods Decades Magazines Assumption Shops Articles Transfers Suggesting

Author:Robert Briffault

“The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.”

Mind Art Past Imagination Conscience Tradition Pretending

Book:The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

Source: The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

“The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.”

Men Today Past Forget Wise He Man Masters Difficulty Over The Past Forget The Past Very Wise

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.”

Use Past Behinds

Book:God Spoke to Me

Source: God Spoke to Me

“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”

Thinking Knows Should Kind I Can Today Past Pay Attention Genius Computer Disaster All Kinds Pay Attention Closest Chips Parallels Inventing Silicon

Author:Billy Zane

“We're not prisoners of the past.”

Past Prisoner

Author:Martin Seligman

“I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.”

Thinking Want Believe Different Past Regret Different Life Learn From The Past

Author:Molly Ringwald

“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.”

Trying Mind Past Challenges Beats Accomplish Accomplished

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.”

World Past Humanity Opinion Changed Majors Phones Overwhelming Championship Phone Calls Fax

Author:Greg Norman

“Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.”

Real Running Pain Past Faces Hurt Our Lives Guilt Running Away

Author:Richard Rohr

“All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.”

Knows Men Should Past Life Is Left Know How Every Man Experiments

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.”

Looks Country Whole Would Be Past Humanity Powerful Pure Flow Tolerance Generosity Vain Streams Broads European Countries

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!”

Thinking Looks Said Past President Comment President Bush

Author:Tommy Franks

“Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.”

Years Today Past Evolution Taste Hundred Years Ago Evolve Masterpiece

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Used Interesting Wonder Wall Used To Be Times Past

Author:Patrick Geddes

“I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.”

Past Strong Interest Findings Work Out Helpful

Author:Peter Gay

“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”

Trying I Can Past Artist Certain Intention Spending Boredom Glances Plague

Author:Philip Guston

“The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.”

Ifs Past Certain Felt Creation Masters Losing Inspired Oneself Surface Painter Canvas Organisms Living Organisms Cezanne

Author:Philip Guston

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Past Lines Approach First Time New Ideas Recurrence

Author:Robert Hass

“My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.”

Wells Has Beens Past Guy Normal

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.”

Wells Made Past Spirit Values Importance Revelations Barriers Prime

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.”

Children Art Past Effort Principles Produce Tradition Works Of Art Revive

Book:Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

Source: Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

“Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”

Past Fantasy Defense

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.”

Age Past Form Artist Genuine Midst Great Art Great Artist Timeliness

Author:Franz Marc

“My past behaviour makes me cringe.”

Past Behaviour Our Past My Past Cringe

Author:Denise Van Outen

“In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.”

Years Humans Past Brain Knowledge Thirty Thirty Years Human Brain

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.”

Years Seems Past Tests Spending More Time Cricket Over The Past Fiancee

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.”

Thinking Whole Together Jobs Past Opportunity Pleasure Opinion Careers Regret Fool Anxiety Add Financial Uncertainty Panic Public Opinion Reminding Past Regrets

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.”

People Past Sound Interesting Knowing Streets Walking Hiding Realising Bus Most Interesting Creepy Doorways Taking Pictures Really Creepy

Author:Anna Paquin

“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.”

Wells Said Bigs Happens Past Remember Names Party Talking Position Republican Majority Congress Average Corruption Voters Cynical Graveyard Whistling Indictment

Author:Larry Sabato

“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”

Men Past Black Change Struggle Controlled Be A Man Black History

Book:Conversations with Ernest Gaines

Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines

“Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.”

Years Past Night Three Found Morning Work Out Excuse Three Years Every Night Vow

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

Past Imagination Creativity Rejects Status Quo

Author:Ai Weiwei

“A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.”

Moments Able Past Ability Worry Player Events Crowds Related Here And Now Effectiveness Worrying About The Past

Author:John Brodie

“I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.”

Two Done Past Fighting Week Hardest Welcome Hello Two Friends Guinness Doms Welcome Back

Author:Ricky Hatton

“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.”

May Moments Would Be Past Order Turns My Own Stage Development Understood Possession Horizon Precarious

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.”

Feels Years Past Party Couple Adults Going Out

Author:Paris Hilton

“We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.”

People Mind Believe Past Change Opinion

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.”

People Thinking Needs Facts Past Used Term Poverty Materials Absolutes Granted Relative Straightforward Deprivation

Author:David Cameron

“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.”

People Ifs Giving Said Real Facts Past Found Opposites Dues Screens Real Life Mutual Chemistry Berries Mutual Respect

Author:Benjamin Bratt

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