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“Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.”

Giving Kind Past Mankind Corruption

Author:Coretta Scott King

“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

“We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.”

Giving Doe Past Enthusiasm Contempt

Book:Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.

Source: Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.

“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”

People Giving Past Talking Advice

Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Kind Past Happened Happenings Glad Unhappy My Past Time Passes

Author:Susan Choi

“Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.”

Giving Past Errors Nostalgia Manifest Respectability Credence

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

Giving Use Past Worship Praise Dues Times Past

Author:Ovid

“For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.”

“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.”

Giving Looks Soul Dream Pain Past Destiny Alive Duty Achievement Rewards Emptiness Nothingness Toil Incentives Our Destiny Your Destiny Here And Now Daydreaming Desolation

Author:Dag Hammarskjold