Hideo Kojima Quotes

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

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.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

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

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

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?

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

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

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.