#the past

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. ↗

— William Glasser

#deal #great #great deal #happened #in the past

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#exaggeration #good #good things #in the past #like

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#come #enjoyed #had #i #in the past