Top 51 Quotes About Looking Backward

#1. To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When you do stop, there's a sense of going nowhere. There's a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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#2. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan

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#3. Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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#4. Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Kristin Hannah

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#5. Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Reinhard Bendix

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#6. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

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#7. These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.

Harvey Broome

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#8. We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.

Mercedes Lackey

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#9. 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

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#10. There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

John H. Makin

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#11. Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

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#12. Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#13. Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Edward Bellamy

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#14. Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light ... galaxies that existed before our time.

Richard Preston

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#15. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Nancy Astor

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#16. Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Charles Yu

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#17. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

Eric Roth

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#18. You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

Karen Marie Moning

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#19. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.

Douglas Coupland

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#20. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Barber

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#21. I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

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#22. Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

Robert Henri

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#23. Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Muriel Spark

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#24. Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

Mason Cooley

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#25. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

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#26. The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

Joe Abercrombie

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#27. The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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#28. Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

Jeff Goodell

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#29. I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

Dan Groat

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#30. You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Frank Herbert

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#31. History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses. Ten

Yuval Noah Harari

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#32. Spare the stress on your neck muscles ... Looking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#33. Oh, you know me, Jules," she answered. "I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!" Much

R.J. Palacio

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#34. A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

Sunday Adelaja

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#35. The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.

Tim O'Brien

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#36. What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?

Karen Joy Fowler

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#37. I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Burt Lancaster

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#38. And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.

Jean Ferris

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#39. Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Charles Handy

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#40. I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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#41. Looking backward through life, one can see the points of change like great locks through which one glides on a flood wave, so smoothly, on such irresistible power that one is hardly aware of any movement. But life is never the same again. One has gone through the lock and lives on a new level.

Mary O'Hara

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#42. Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded.

Dorit Brauer

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#43. I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever

Elizabeth Warren

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#44. Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Marge Piercy

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#45. The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

D.T. Suzuki

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#46. I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!

R.J. Palacio

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#47. If people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?

Daniel H. Pink

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#48. Stop looking backward. Life isn't lived in that direction. Your future isn't in that direction. It's forward, out into the horizon ahead of you.

F.E. Feeley Jr.

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#49. You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#50. 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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#51. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

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