I'm a goal-oriented person, and instead of focusing on the past, I'd rather focus on the future.
People who think about the past have no future.
Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
He that will not look forward must look behind.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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.
One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.
Why would I ever be bitter and negative and focus on the past?
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.
I don't really look into the past too much.
We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.
