#in the past

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#always #best #best work #buy #cars

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#break #dawn #did #fact #great

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#boss #in the past #lead #leader #leaders

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#been #box #box office #culture #even

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#fame #fortune #fruit #great #great reward

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#because #body #cover #done #embarrassed

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #i #i do #in the past #just

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#answers #i #i always #in the past #just

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. ↗

— Ken Burns

#documentary #drama #feel #films #hollywood