Work Backwards Quotes

#1. The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Cassandra Clare

#3. By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud

#4. To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

Donald McKay

#5. [Y]ou've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.

Bernadette Jiwa

#6. We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

Jeff Bezos

#7. I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

Ricky Van Veen

#8. The real question is: how will YOU checkmate the market and win in your business? Focus on the endgame and work backwards from there.

Danny Flood

#9. Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.

Wayne W. Dyer

#10. I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

K.d. Lang

#11. That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

Steven Pressfield

#13. we figure out what we need to learn and then work backwards to see what product will work as an experiment to get that learning.

Eric Ries

#14. Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Jeff Bezos

#15. To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

Frances G. Wickes

#16. Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

C.S. Lewis

#17. I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

Nathan Fillion

#18. No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Evander Holyfield

#19. Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.

Anthony Liccione

#21. Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it!

Abhishek Ratna

#22. I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

Nia Long

#23. We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

Roberto Azevedo

#24. Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

Charlotte Eriksson

#25. You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Amy Grant

#26. Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, and colorless to get itself sufficiently noticed without the lobbying efforts of professionals.

Kennedy Fraser

#27. It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

Rafael Sabatini

#28. Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Martin Luther

#29. There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.

Peter Ackroyd

#30. I can run from Marcus, he can run from me. But it's all loops and circles that will always end where we started; together.

Lola St.Vil

#31. Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.

Rachel Vincent

#33. Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Jason Alexander