Amanda Harlech 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.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

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

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from 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.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

You can never plan the future by the past.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The future has a lot to do with the past.