"Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come."
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"During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark."
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"The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past."
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"Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that."
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"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."
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"You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us."
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"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
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"I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL."
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"Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?"
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"One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential."
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"So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long."
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"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that."
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"In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it."
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"Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over."
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"In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious."
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"Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style."
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"Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom."
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"A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past."
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