Over The Past Quotes

• The past has no power over the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Twitter post from Jun 2, 2014

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  Don't dwell on what went wrong.
  Instead, focus on what to do next.
  Spend your energies on moving forward
  toward finding the answer.

  Denis Waitley

  Success, Moving On, Letting Go

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• God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

  Pliny the Elder

  Past, Oblivion, Over It

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• Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

  Ann Landers

  Past, Love Is, Hope For The Future

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Years, Energy

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

  Gaylord Perry

  Change, Past, Years

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Children, Past, Years

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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Unexpected

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Thinking, Past

  "Interview with French President Jacques Chirac". L'Orient-Le Jour Interview, www.globalpolicy.org. October 16, 2002.

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• House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Past, Years

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 20, 2005.

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• There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.

  Bruno Walter

  Spiritual, Children, School

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• The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

  Ben Bernanke

  Past, Risk, Months

  "MAULDIN: Economists Are Totally Clueless About The Economy" by John Mauldin, www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2013.

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• You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.

  Tiger Woods

  Moving, Past, Order

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• History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

  Winston Churchill

  Future, Past, Historical

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.

  Eric Ludy

  Men, Past, Years

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• You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.

  Emma Stone

  Giving Up, Past, Thinking

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• I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Past, Careers, Years

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• Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

  George Zimmer

  Past, Years, Loyal Customers

  "Fired Men's Wearhouse Founder Slams The Board In An Explosive Statement" by Ashley Lutz, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2013.

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• It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Real, Past, Example

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• Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Past, Light

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”, Hogarth P.

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• Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  Jackie Stewart

  Leadership, Past, Years

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• We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

  George W. Bush

  Past, Years, Degrees

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• The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Past, Years, Two

  "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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