Corey Taylor Quotes

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

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

I don't take anything for granted anymore, I'll tell you that.

We tend to rush through life, generally. We don't appreciate the people around us, the relationships we have, or anything.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

It's always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.