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That time when past begins to look longer than the future
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.
The past is gained, secure, and on record.
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
The past has to inform the present.
The past is the prologue.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ...
The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ...
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
The past is a blur, like fog only blurrier.
You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.
How bright such memories seem when the life they catalogue is threatened! Afterwards,
History is history.
The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.
All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.
History is sensitive dependent on initial conditions. You cannot predict the future.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
History remembers most what you did last.
When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
History is no more than memories refreshed.
History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.
You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory.
Time goes from present to past.
How quickly a moment sinks into the past.
We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present
History at its best is vicarious experience.
The Past is what it was and did what its done....
Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.
What's past is prologue.
The present grows within the boundaries of the past.
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions!
Time passes, but memories linger.
The present is shaped by the past.
All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered.
Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.
This was in the white of the year,
That was in the green,
Drifts were as difficult then to think
As daisies now to be seen.
Looking back is best that is left,
Or if it be before,
Retrospection is prospect's half,
Sometimes almost more.
People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, it's a very sudden thing.
The past is getting clearer and clearer
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
Behind Past Mistakes and Regrets
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.
The past is obdurate.
History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.
At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.
Memoir is a confabulation of what we think we remember about our past.
No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment.
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
What has happened in the past is gone
The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...
But one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.
History ... a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.
We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.
The past is only as alive as we keep it by remembering.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
Where does the past go when it changes?
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
When the past is hard to explain, it's best to concentrate on the future.
walk forwards in the radiance of the past
When you attend only to this moment regrets of the past begin to fade.
Historians, only things of weight,
Results of persons, or affairs of State,
Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate;
Laconic shortness memory feeds.
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
History works itself out in the living.
For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past
Throughout one's life, the mind remembers in such strange ways. Those experiences worth remembering will be recalled with ease; crystal clear insights into the past. Together with a smile they will be woven into yarns and shared with others.
History is the angle at which realities meet.
Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve.
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
Remembrance of things past.
Sometimes the past can vanish.
History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.
For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.
The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.
Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.
Looking back don't interest me. Today's what matters. And tomorrow, if we're lucky.
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future ...
You change the past when you change the way you see it.