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“To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.”

Helping Past Behinds Darkness Draws Comedian My Past

Author:Matthew Perry

“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”

Ifs Years Two Past Used Draws Gains Weight Twenties Conclusion Used To Be Cute Pounds Two Years Mathematician Over The Past Stunning Diagrams Really Cute

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?”

World Doe War Past Culture Lessons Draws Concern Backgrounds War Of The Worlds Genocide Holocaust Continents Second World War

Author:Irina Bokova

“When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.”

Seems Past Difficult Principles Fashion Clothes Draws Contemporary Conclusion Eras Retrospect

Author:James Laver

“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

Years Looks May Past Left Dark Steps Clear Draws Mercy Distance Another Year

Author:Mary Gardiner Brainard

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.”

Past Draws Thread Needles

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.”

Knows May Past History Our Lives Journey Fields Grew Draws Treasure Harvest Provision Reap

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

Knows Past Creativity Creative Draws Vacuums

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.”

Facts Past Leadership Vision Draws Conclusion Experts Logical Assistants Administrators Visions Of The Future

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.”

Made Stories Past Realizing Mistake Path Draws My Friends Twenties Glad Horrible Rockets Setback My Past Trajectory Horrible Things

Author:Chuck Palahniuk