Corey Taylor Quotes

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 had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

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.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Every moment wasted looking back prevents us from moving forward.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

There is no point staying on the past.

I think if I look back too much, I can't move forward.

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

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Don't look back, you can never look back

One should look forward rather than backwards.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

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.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future