Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.

People use the past as the excuse to remain stuck in habits and attitudes that keep them from growing.

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Today we often use deadlines — real and imaginary — to imprison ourselves.

Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course.

The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people had this annoying way of remembering them. And even if they didn't, there were journalists and political rivals never passed on a chance to make the necessary reminders.

"The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it […]