Stephen Carter Quotes

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

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

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

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

I look forward and see myself look back.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.

My past is everything I failed to be.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's own childhood problems in the context of one's relation to one's child.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.Our girls [Paper Girls] are now dealing with what their futures look like, and reflecting on what they hoped the present day versions might be like.

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.