Twyla Tharp Quotes

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

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

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

What is past is prologue.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The past is the present and the future too.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.