Quotes About Looking Backwards

#1. Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards.

Jane V. Blanchard

#2. I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

Ben Rector

#3. Don't walk into the future looking backwards

Stevanne Auerbach

#4. I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Jomo Kenyatta

#5. It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime.

Hillary Clinton

#6. Sometimes I feel like seeing if I can track down anybody from the old days, but then I think, what would I talk to them about now? They wouldn't even recognize Megan the happily married suburbanite. In any case, I can't risk looking backwards, it's always a bad idea.

Paula Hawkins

#7. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Steve Jobs

#8. I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#9. You can be okay here, Tash. If you're getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You're looking backwards." He bent down, bringing his mouth to hers, leaving nothing but a few molecules between them. "Turn around, babe. See me.

Susan Fanetti

#10. It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Gillian Duce

#11. Wilhelm's smile reminded Harry of his father's sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that's where the things that made him smile were.

Jo Nesbo

#12. Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.

Soman Chainani

#13. I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

Robbie Lawler

#14. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

#15. If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Jeff Ross

#16. The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

#17. Looking backwards
Has never been my endeavor
Lost passions ... bruised emotions
Never distressed me.

Balroop Singh

#18. To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

John Sexton

#19. Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

Michele Bachmann

#20. You can't move forward looking backwards.

Delores Thornton

#21. He was looking backwards, and that was an entirely different thing. Looking backwards was
important, even when you were standing still. He had to see what was there. There was something
back there, and even if everybody else didn't see it, he had to.

Aelius Blythe

#22. I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

Jeremy Paxman

#23. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way

Josh Stern

#24. You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

Gus Van Sant

#25. I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Mary E. DeMuth

#26. This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

David Ervine

#27. I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

Scott McCloud

#28. aware that Allison's eyes were on him, stepped backwards and began instead to swivel his lower body in an oddly lascivious and adult-looking little dance.

Donna Tartt

#29. Your irritation is important to us," Cassie droned, looking at me upside down with her head tipped backwards over her headrest, "and will be exacerbated in rotation. Thank you for holding.

Tana French

#30. Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating
and there's something exquisite about that.

Hugh Laurie

#31. Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to cheer as "genuine " and not those troublesome and inconvenient analog ones.
Looking at it all fucking backwards.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#32. And keep looking forward. Don't look backwards.

Michelle DeRusha

#33. The people setting out on these walks weren't seeking to conquer peaks or test themselves against maps and miles. They were looking for a mystical communion with the land; they walked backwards in time to an imagined past suffused with magical, native glamour:

Helen Macdonald