Previous Reflections

Ignore previous cookie. - Unknown

I am 46, and have been for some time past. - Anita Brookner

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present. - Ken Lancaster

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today. - Dwayne Johnson

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. - Elizabeth Taylor

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight

The arrogance of the present is to forget the intelligence of the past. - Ken Burns

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. - Vauvenargues

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. - Rick Pitino

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C.S. Forester

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind of the present moment. - Buddha

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

I have a Rubik's Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. - Jarod Kintz

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

We cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. - Henry David Thoreau

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media. But the Internet is becoming the umbrella. - Larry Weber

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven - Rick Warren