I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.