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The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
George Crumb
Future
Will
Past
Child
Even
Rebellious
Present
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Life
Future
Enemies
Past
Real Life
Our
Backward
Unpredictable
Takes
Real
Place
Us
Ifs
Forward
Now
Here
Pull
I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
Sebastian Vettel
Care
Too Much
Focus
Looking
Past
Too
Looking Forward
Am
Coming
dont Care
Happened
In The Past
Prefer
Much
Really
Next
Forward
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.
Shakira
Today
Challenges
Generation
World
Problems
Responsibility
Single
Past
Believe
Every
Our
Our Generation
Solutions
Find
Some
Faces
Generations
Involved
Make
Make A Difference
Passed
Passing
Were
Up
Celebrity
Get
Trying
Difference
Which
Us
Many
Keep
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Simon Sinek
Future
Challenge
Past
Unknown
More
Exciting
Accomplished
Than
Stories
Much
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.
Virginia Woolf
Beautiful
Time
Emotions
Past
Complete
Later
About
Only
Emotion
Never
Thus
Because
Note
Present
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Future
Celebrate
Past
Think
Birthdays
Only
Shares
Anniversary
Like
Also
Occasions
Friends
Whom
Among
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
Alice McDermott
Life
Love
Time
Me
Heart
Intelligence
Impossible
Lost
Past
Whatever
Something
Dead
Return
Knows
Shelter
Yearn
Continue
Lost Love
Blows
Interests
Connection
Even
I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
Conor McGregor
Success
Failure
Somewhere
Past
Stars
Final
Way
Say
OK
Never
Get
Same
Done
Going
Just
Being
Them
Success Is
Then
Keep
Keep Going
Fatal
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sad
You
Memory
Past
Harmonious
Elude
Find
Remain
Sadder
Conception
Forever
Than
Again
Inadequate
Present
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Future
Past
Only
Make
Useful
Present
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Haile Selassie
Personality
Past
Awareness
Our
Identity
Essential
African
Establishment
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Future
Time
Change
World
Law
Past
Those
Only
Miss
Look
Still
Certain
Stand
Who
Present
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
Maeve Binchy
Happiness
Attitude
You
Happy
Yourself
Past
Own
Think
Our
Circumstances
Find
Totally
No Regrets
Cheerful
Make
Lot
Hearts
Anything
In The Past
Regrets
Your
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
Smile
Past
Back
Look
Perils
What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Past
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
Bill Gates
Future
You
Creative
Creativity
People
Past
Stars
Took
Take
Know
Make
Sort
Knows
Rock
Still
Rock Stars
Exist
Maybe
Want
In The Past
Place
Much
Certain
Certain Level
Incentives
Who
Creative People
Level
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
Future
People
Past
Living
Thinking
Everything
About
Only
Most
Prisoners
Begins
Where
In The Past
Present
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown
You
Strong
Feelings
Past
Live
Carrying
Strong Feelings
Ability
About
Something
Hinder
May
Happened
Your
Present
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey
Life
You
Power
Past
Whatever
Over
Because
Happened
Your
Moment
Now
Present
Present Moment
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
Robert Plant
Past
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Stone
Let's forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.
Shehbaz Sharif
New Beginning
Past
Beginning
New
Make
Forget
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins
Failure
Frustration
Past
Believe
Enjoy
Living
Laying
New
Come
New Level
Were
Created
Now
Foundation
Actually
Level
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
Future
Class
Nation
Past
Classes
Upper
Middle
Middle Class
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
Happiness
Great
Past
Find
Give
Simplest
Simplest Things
Retrospect
Occasions
Greatest
Glow
Off
Recall
Things
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl von Clausewitz
Time
Better
Past
Action
Hesitate
Until
Err
Quickly
Than
Act
Even
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