Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I was adored once too.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

What is past is prologue.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Bring them on.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.