Previous Reflections

What's past is prologue. - William Shakespeare

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Suntan: A pigment of your imagination. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Your past does not determine your future. - Nido Qubein

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post. - L. Thomas Holdcroft

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Unknown

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. - Jodi Picoult

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. - T D Jakes

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. - Jack London

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. - Oscar Wilde

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future. - Han Nolan

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The past exists only in our memories,
The future only in our plans.
The present is our only reality. - Robert Pirsig

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. - Ingrid Newkirk

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sydney J. Harris

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. - Winston Churchill

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future. - Hunter S Thompson

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. - Learned Hand

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

Enjoy your age before it's past; Don't try to be 18 so fast. You're only 14 once, my dears, but you'll be 35 for years. - Elinor K. Rose

When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. - Bobby Knight

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people; they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. - Ken Blanchard