Michael McKean Quotes

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.

I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I don't believe in regrets. I don't think regrets actually exist. I think regrets are things people make up in their heads. So, I don't regret anything. Everything turned out exactly the way it was supposed to.

There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Do not regret what you have done

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

Regrets don't help anything.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.