Worrying About The Past Quotes by Chris Ware, John Brodie, Johnny Cash, Henry David Thoreau, Harvey Mackay, Howard A. Tullman and many others.
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
A player’s effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can’t be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
Worrying about the past or the future isn’t productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.
A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I’m trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That’s such a waste of time, you know?
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
