Jim Barksdale Quotes

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

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• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Past
  • Professional
  • Hands

• I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Love
  • Past
  • Road

• The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Self

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Past
  • Present
  • Connect

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Past
  • Difficult

• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Different
  • Important

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • People
  • Past
  • Crazy

• Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • High

• I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Women
  • Always
  • Feminist

• Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • People
  • Painting

• If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • God
  • Country
  • Bad

• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Past