Quotes About Reflection

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

I try to forget the past.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

It was very clear I wasn't giving my all in the past - not even close.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.