Charles Frazier Quotes

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

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

The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I believe we need to learn from our past.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

I haven't changed, but people's perception changed.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what's going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor.

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

I like to think I'm a recovering historian.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.