“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
Source: Agnes and the Hitman
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“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.”
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Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
Variant: The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
Source: You Don't Know Me
In response to critics and ballet fans who say Tidwell "sold-out" by auditioning on So You Think You Can Dance
La Rocco Claudia. "TV Viewers Discover Dance, and the Debate Is Joined" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/dance/21revo.html?ref=dance#, The New York Times, September 21, 2007
Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 359 Session 654
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Phrixus, Frag. 927