Not Dwelling on the Past Quotes

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

I never look in the rearview mirror.

I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.

If a person's around me talking about '92, or 2005, I get away from them quickly. I don't want to be around anybody talking about the past.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

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

Always keep looking forward, and never look back.

I've never really looked back.

The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

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.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. And never judge anything of the past from the new perspective that is arriving, because the new is new, incomparably new and the old was right in its own context, and the new is right in its own context.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

For once, I didn't look back.

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

If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

I don't really look into the past too much.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.

I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.

I am not a person who will think about the past.