Past present Quote by Meg Jay Download Open image ““Interviewers want to hear a reasonable story about the past, present, and future.”” — Meg Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Past present Past present and future Time
“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“...reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.” — Christopher Babson Copy Share Image
“Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
“We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.” — Esmé Raji Codell Copy Share Image
“How do you get the happy ending? John Irving ought to know. One of my favorite authors, Irving writes these multigenerational epics of fiction… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [...] It is… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“their own grandchildren. Parents like Kate’s are so intent on protecting their kids from their brand of the midlife crisis—their regret over settling down… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“When we cannot connect something we see or hear to something we have seen or heard before, or when the words will simply not… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will be easiest… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“can really rescue you, and you have to do something. Not knowing what you want to” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“Real confidence comes from mastery experiences, which are actual, lived moments of success, especially when things seem difficult.” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“According to Greek mythology, Medusa is a Triple Goddess, one of three gorgon sisters—Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa—representing past, present, and future. Only Medusa exists… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Absolute means Universal or fixed. So I think nothing is fixed and universal in Conscious manner. But I also think everything is fixed and… — Rajendra Prasad Ojha Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image