Backward Thinking Quotes

#1. Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward - thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.

Lynn Austin

#2. One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Jeff Goodell

#3. We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.

Spike Lee

#4. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

John C. Maxwell

#5. the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist

simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids

Rupi Kaur

#6. Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Laozi

#7. Jesus, dude could suck the orange off a carrot. A big, long carrot.

K.A. Mitchell

#8. Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Eugene O'Neill

#9. I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Russell D. Moore

#10. Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Brian Herbert

#11. What are you? (Nick)
Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron)
Yeah. Duh. Not like you're going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

#13. The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

Peter Abrahams

#14. The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is

Barry Goldwater

#15. This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.

Kathryn Davis

#16. Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward.

Victoria Addino

#17. If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

Mitchell Baker

#19. I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.

Frank Deford

#20. A photo is a creation.

Eva Herzigova

#21. The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.

Steve McNair

#22. And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

Rufus Wainwright

#23. Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Adam McKay

#24. Possibly this is some demonstration of how amazing the human brain is, adjusting and readjusting reality, plugging up potential crazy with a handy coping mechanism. As for myself, I think it demonstrates that the human brain is made of recycled monkey bits and pure, unadulterated stupid.

Rachel Sharp

#25. One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Alison Gopnik

#26. For a moment he thought Laurent wasn't going to do it. But in public, Laurent had no recourse to refusal. Laurent extended his hand. And then waited, palm outstretched, his eyes lifting to meet Damen's. Laurent said, 'Put it on me.' Every

C.S. Pacat

#27. I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, "Smokey! I love you! What's happening with Jacob?" Here's a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I'm looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward!

Titus Welliver

#28. One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

W. H. Auden

#29. Don't give pain to others.

Gary Kemp

#30. I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

Bobby Hull

#31. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.

Grace Paley

#32. It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy.

C.S. Lewis