Quotes About Reflection

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

I exist only in the past.

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It's something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It's part of our history. It's part of us.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I want to write music based on my life, my past experiences and heartbreaks.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

My past is a bit checkered.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

My favorite pastime is to write.

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.