So we call those focus Past Positive or Past Negative.

Or maybe you turn to the past.

You call yesterday the past?

Karma Bond to the Past and Future

Dreyman, I'm glad you're working with such directors now.

Maybe in the past, but not now.

We are losing interest in the past more rapidly.

Our left hemisphere is all about the past and it's all about the future.

It is neither inward looking nor atavistic.

It provides an inherent link to the past as well as an intrinsic passage to the future.

True, when compared to the recent past, party politics has become more polarized.

But now when I look back, my parents ran a sweat shop!

Your Majesty, is it wise to speak of things so long in the past?

But savings will need to be allocated far more efficiently than in the past.

I know all about you, your real name and your past political activity.

It's only a few mangoes. I've done nothing for you in the past.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

For others it's not the past, it's not the present, it's only about the future.

Here's another example of how comparing to the past can befuddle our decisions.

I want you to think that every bite connects you to the past and the future to these anonymous farmers, that first bred the first wheat varieties and to the farmers of today, who've been making this.

In the case of Royal, the meaning of rupture is both more obvious and more visible.

This tendency to compare to the past is causing people to pass up the better deal.

The past can serve as a guide to the consequences of the warming that we are causing.

Think back to your time in high school. Did you ever feel that you were in prison?

But, if the past is any guide to the future, we should be aware of the limits of regulation.

Today s emerging countries have considerable policy flexibility and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past.

There may have been some truth to this in the past, although never to the extent that many Cypriots believe.

But, unless they are willing to break with the past, they will not succeed in the present.

EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism.

You know there's a reason your windshield is bigger than your rearview mirror.

On average, performance might be somewhat better than in the past, but nowhere near as stellar as optimists expect.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past?

And it's only in retrospect, after the better software comes along, and you take it and you run it on a ten year old machine, you say,

If the past is an indication of their future performance, there is reason for deep concern.

Tunisians were keen to cut all ties with the past, and the battle for democracy in Tunisia, did not stop with Ben Ali fleeing the country.

Somehow there must be a reason why our scientists will never find himself in a situation where he could shoot himself.

In the histogram before you now, the blue bars represent the historical range of temperatures, going back about far as we have temperature data.

Sounds naive, but it shows that we are not the only ones able to learn lessons from the past, not the only ones to be eclectics, not the only ones to be omnivorous, not the only ones able to go forward.

Yet Poland, like many of the other new democracies in our region, remains stuck in the past when it comes to the humane treatment of drug users.

And it's only in retrospect, after the better software comes along, and you take it and you run it on a ten year old machine, you say, God, the machine was that fast?

If the past is any guide, much of what seems like science fiction today will become reality tomorrow.

Today, it sounds old fashioned to describe the university s purpose as being to cultivate people, as if it were a glorified finishing school.

The Committee is now in almost continuous session throughout the year, meeting twice a day, every day, compared with a more flexible daily schedule in the past.

More importantly, it provides an inherent link to the past as well as an intrinsic passage to the future, thus providing a new dynamic which helps overcome a static world view.

Of course, problems remain. Some, linked to the recent past, such as the problem of debt, seem to be obstacles to the development of new initiatives.