“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”
Source: Ghost Story
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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.
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Excerpts from a speech to the Fiji Institute of Accountants, 28 April 2005
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”
“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.”
Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 2