Jane McGonigal Quotes

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

The only danger of knowing and thinking a lot about history, is that you will trip on something behind you. Be sure you also look ahead.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

The past is only the future with the lights on

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.