Gavin MacLeod Quotes

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That's been my father's philosophy and mine as well.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I don't live in the past.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I don't really look into the past too much.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning and not being able to find joy in happy memories and things like that.

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

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.