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«People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.»
Author: J. Michael Straczynski
(Producer)
| Keywords:
blame, capable, energy, excuses, finding, growing, line, On the Line, Out of the Past, past life, past times, putting
«Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
control, detailed, from the, future, goals, Goal setting, in detail, live in, moment, over, past, past times, set, Set Your Goals, The future, vivid
«To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?»
«I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
complete, emotion, emotions, expands, later, note, past times, thus
«In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
altar, assemblage, belonging, categories, deplete, depleted, depleting, hither, joyful, left brain, mansions, motive power, past times, products, purely, sense of purpose, take to, Temple of, therein, The temple, utilitarian, vivid
«Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
able, abler, ablest, draw, draw in, draw up, experience, future, gather, Gathering The, gather in, gather up, How to draw, invest, invested with, investing, invests, i drew, past, past times, take
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
burden, desolation, past life, past times, sad, storm, subdued, subdues, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, swept, vanity
«Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Juries and Judges,
Past
| Keywords:
conclusions, past times