Michael Caine Quotes

Don't look back, you can never look back

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

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.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

We don't want to get distracted by looking back; we need to move forward.

Going back to the past is not productive.

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

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.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

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.

Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.

Never look back; something is always gaining on you.

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.