Thinking Of The Past Quotes

• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

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  Pablo Picasso

  Past   Thinking   Ideas  

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• Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

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  Dodie Smith

  Real   Past   Thinking  

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.265, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?

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  Stopford Brooke

  Dream   Past   Thinking  

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

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  Robin Sharma

  Life   Positive   Time  

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• The past has no power over the present moment.

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  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive   Wisdom   Philosophical  

  Twitter post from Jun 2, 2014

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• Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

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  Arthur Waley

  Pain   Regret   Past  

  The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley (2012). “Chinese Poems”, p.177, Routledge

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• Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

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  Craig Venter

  Moving   Past   Thinking  

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2009.

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