James Spader Quotes

I spend a lot of time in the future, But to help the future, sometimes you got to go back to the past, and sometimes you got to stay in the present.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the 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.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.