Bartlett Sher Quotes

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

One faces the future with one's past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

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

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

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.

I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.'

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

I love historical references.

For me, I wear a suit because I need to remember what's happened before me.

In terms of experience, I am a much more evolved person than I was at my peak as a star.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.