Aerin Lauder Quotes

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

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

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The past has to inform the present.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

The past is the present and the future too.

We are products of the past and its useful to remember that as we move into the future.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

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.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

It's time to realise that tradition is fantastic but if because of tradition and only tradition you lose everyone it's less fantastic so you have to keep some tradition to this sport of course but you also have to live in your century.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

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

History is not was. It is.

The electronic media are not very good at history. It is a world of the eternal now.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.