Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, Inc., commencement address at Stanford University, 2005
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”; check Krista Tippett’s 9/11 On Being episode entitled “Who Do We Want to Become? at St Paul’s Chapel with Henrik Hertzberg, Panjak Mishra and Serene Jones
Time as a river is a more Euro-American concept of time, with each event happening and passing on like a river flows downstream. Time as a pond is a more Native American concept of time, with everything happening on the same surface, in the same area – and each event is a ripple on the surface.
Dave Edmunds (Cherokee), professor, 2001
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Gene Roddenberry, quoted by Dr. Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) in “Star Trek: Generations” (Paramount, 1994)
History. Who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy and who’s responsible and who, you know, who started it? That’s the question. Who started it? It depends on where you start the story. It’s the great sweep of time that allows us to make sense of our lives and the lives of people. God paints on a vast canvas, and His brush is time.
Mary Doria Russell, novelist, quoted on Speaking of Faith, January, 2009
You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you’re gone.
George W. Bush, Washington, DC, May 5, 2006
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George Santayana
What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.
G.W.F. Hegel
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht, “An Iowa Humoresque” , from 1001 Afternoons In Chicago, 1922
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine of Hippo
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
William Cuthbert Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951
Einstein was the person to establish this notion of what is sometimes called block time — that the past, present, and future are just personal decompositions of time, and that the universe of past, present, and future in some sense has an eternal existence. And so even though individuals may come and go, their lives, which are in the past for their descendants, nevertheless still have some existence within this block time. Nothing takes that away. You may have your threescore years and ten measured by a date after your death. You are no more. And yet within this grander sweep of the timescape, nothing is changed. Your life is still there in its entirety.”
Paul Davies, astrobiologist, interviewed on Krista Tippett‘s “On Being” episode “Einstein’s God” aired on February 25, 2010
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