Joe Torre Quotes

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

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

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

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

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

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.