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Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

— Denis Waitley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

— Petra Nemcova

Know how to live the time that is given you.

— Dario Fo

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

— Dorothea Dix

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

— Eckhart Tolle

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

— Gary Ryan Blair

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

— Donatella Versace

✗Opposing Perspectives

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Buddha

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

— Alex Trebek

Create your future from your future not your past.

— Werner Erhard