"We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Future Quotes #Past Quotes #Looking To The Future Quotes

“Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.”
“He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her.”
“la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet”
“You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”
“Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.”
“My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)”
“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”

Source : Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

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