Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I never look in the rearview mirror.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

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 don't have any big regrets.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.

I try very hard not to look back.

Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

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

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.