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“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

Thinking Mean Problem Would Be Today Past Work Mankind Method Naive Solved Problems

Book:A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988

Source: A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988

“I don't view myself from the past present or future tense i like to think of the world from my own personal point of view at whatever time i feel that is relayed to me in conjunction with my well being to progressively grow successfully finacially as well as mentally.”

Thinking World Feels Wells Past Grows My Own Views Point Of View Well Being Tense Past Present Conjunctions

Author:Riff Raff

“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.”

Thinking World Feels Writing Trying Light Past Dark Style Capable Concern Details Sentences Granted Paragraph

Author:Michael Chabon

“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.”

Thinking Years Done Past Modern Couple Died Obsessed Fascinating Unbelievable Modern Day Brando

Author:Melissa Benoist

“The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.”

Thinking Needs Past Social Cutting Failing Media Tradition Social Media Online Clothings Fabric Jewels Learn From The Past

Author:Giuseppe Zanotti

“The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?”

Thinking World Said Past Remember Behinds Heard Mouths Flesh Remembered Buried Remember When Behind You Cupboards

Author:Claudia Rankine

“One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.”

People Thinking Needs Should Has Beens Problem Past Young Talking Written Subjects Fit Computer Should Have Scientist Experts Computer Science Curriculum Ict

Author:Michael Gove

“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.”

Thinking Past Events Divine Poet Genius Historical Depth Insight Suspects Disguise Casual Godlike

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Firsts May Mean Problem Age Past Black Change Learning Century Filled Honestly Obedience Bigotry Inferiors Terrified Submission Preconceptions Unlearn

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.”

Thinking Men May Littles Has Beens Philosophy Past Force Grows Virtue My Friends Gains Dignity Bravery Senses Ruins Association Indifferent Marathon Piety Envied Frigid

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Past Alive

Book:Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

“What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.”

People Thinking Knows Way Life Should Children Facts Feelings Past Young Life Is Waiting Nice Our Children Awful Your Children Unexpected Impress Slipping

Book:Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford

Source: Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford

“I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.”

Ifs Thinking Made Past Mistake Add

Book:Off Center: Essays

Source: Off Center: Essays

“The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.”

Thinking Men World Way Years Littles Done Whole Past Love Is Rich Middle Regret Lovers Men And Women Bites Turkeys Flip Cocktails Don't Regret Napkins Years Of Life

Author:Marie Dressler

“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”

“I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Past Sound Player Impossible Involved Studios Atmosphere Can Not Motown

Author:Elton John

“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.”

Thinking Two Past Remember Hours Differences Brain Minutes Details Meaningful Bullets Visualization Most Meaningful Positive Experiences

Author:Shawn Achor

“People who think about the past have no future.”

People Thinking Past

Author:Hermione Gingold

“I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”

Thinking Men Age Past Certain Grows Aging

Book:Whose Body?

Source: Whose Body?

“Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Impulse

Book:The Ivy Tree

Source: The Ivy Tree

“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Waiting Results Amount Tomorrow Bounds Poison Outlook Discontent Seasoning

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.”

Thinking Past Nostalgia Old Days Good Old Days

Book:All for one

Source: All for one

“Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.”

“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

“There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.”

Thinking World Has Beens Past Darkness Generations Dangerous Stupidity Overwhelming Past Generations

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.”

Thinking Knows Reality Past Young Realizing Comfort Fragile Hymns

Author:Andy Griffith

“The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.”

Thinking Trying Doe Moments Past

Author:Layman Pang

“I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Culture British Monarchy British Monarchy

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.”

Thinking Way Looks Past Challenges Critics Makeup

Author:Ellie Goulding

“I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.”

Thinking Made Past Grateful Who I Am My Past

Author:Hilary Swank

“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.”

Thinking Men Important Past Opportunity Responsibility Environment Rewards Available Corporate Participants

Author:Betty Friedan

“I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Past Dies Belief Late Medicine Alternatives Too Late Get Away Suspects Hospitals Gym Lots Of Money Irish Proverbs

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.”

People Thinking Way May Past Practice Population Our Future Indigenous Annihilation Relics Sustainable Living Gatekeepers

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard Pain Past House Dark White Rooms Known Four Wall Locked Entering White Walls

Book:Seed of Mischief

Source: Seed of Mischief

“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”

Thinking Trying Wells May Facts Past Law Strange Equal Degrees Fundamentals Opening Our Thoughts Backwards Metaphysical Opening Up

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.”

Thinking Persons Past Actors Emotion Creating Who You Are Secure Portraying

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”

Thinking Way Children Persons Has Beens Reason Past Beautiful Sides Dark Interesting Abuse Relate Reason Why Furious Outcast Facets Maleficent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.”

Thinking Knows Said War Past Term Steps Boys Calling Gay Civil War Civilized Imperfect Sixty Polite Strife Riot Marble Waitress Baltimore Wince Scott Fitzgerald During The Civil War

Author:Laura Lippman

“Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.”

Thinking Past Dies Wise Stupid Stupid Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.”

Thinking Doe Past Certain Musician My Past

Author:John Sebastian

“I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.”

Thinking Self Enough Stories Feelings Past Hard Work Healthy Harder Good Enough Traps Cant Work Harder Dose Loathing Not Good Enough Self Loathing

Author:Kim Cattrall

“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Helping Seems Government Past Courses Too Much Civilization Agree Debate Civilized Disagree Statesmen Good Faith Pettiness Agree To Disagree

Author:Daphne Guinness

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

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Author:Kanye West

“Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Past Faces Values Interest Can Do Share Mines Taught Goes On Humble Vulnerable Staring Mortality Splendid Crooked Juncture

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.”

Thinking Knows Stills Past Ridiculous Finding Yourself Music Business

Author:Vince Clarke

“Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.”

Thinking Past Illusion Here And Now Future Time

Author:Marina Abramovic