Alan Cohen Quotes

Each day, I choose my age.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

You learn from your mistakes at the end of the day. We don't got to keep drilling on the past, things like that. You live and you learn.

My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

My problems are all behind me!

There are things to be learned even from the dead.