Ad-Rock Quotes

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

I try very hard not to look back.

There is no point staying on the past.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every moment wasted looking back prevents us from moving forward.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

Going back to the past is not productive.

I try and move with the times. If I stop and begin thinking about the past there will be a problem.