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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

I've had times in the past where I wanted to give up acting, get my head out of the arts because it was like my constitution couldn't deal with it. My job means I get judged on my looks; I get discriminated against because of my sex; I take on roles that are so two-dimensional... you can go mad trying to fill that third dimension.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

Football is such a traditionalist sport. Whatever happened in the past is usually going to continue. But the bullying has no place in any sport. That's the bottom line.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

I've been learning, this is one of the things that I've been learning: If you are living in the past, you're depressed. If you are living in the future, you have anxiety.

People live in the past too much. They live the past.

I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.