Baltasar Gracian Quotes

One must be of one's own time.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

Progress is the mother of problems.

Our past is not our potential.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

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.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.