The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. — William Gibson
Going Backward Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Going Backwards Quotes
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T. D. Jakes
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale
The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do. — Charles F. Haanel
Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. — J. K. Rowling
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent. — Kevin Gates
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. — Rihanna
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
Going Backwards To Go Forward Quotes
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. — Abraham Lincoln
Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show. — Zinedine Zidane
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. — Yo-Yo Ma
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move. — Edgar Cayce
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward. — Ndamukong Suh
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
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward. — Muriel Spark
Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. — Ajahn Chah
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward. — Zeena Schreck
Going Backwards In Life Quotes
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again. — Yvon Chouinard
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. — Andy Serkis
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward! — John C. Maxwell
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light. — Frederick Lenz
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
Your objective should be to go ahead. — Napoleon Hill
Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Walking Backwards Quotes
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. — E. E. cummings
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. — John Huston
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. — Michael Biehn
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? — Diogenes
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man. — Jim Davidson
Forward And Backward Quotes
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. — Grandma Moses
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 Fairless Barber
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
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
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state. — Nikolai Berdyaev
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. — Steve Jobs
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way. — Sharon Shinn
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. — Paul Russo
When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward — Jim Cymbala
Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say. — Bryant H. McGill
We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards. — Bill Owens
We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars. — Jill Stein
More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward. — Cecelia Ahern
Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am. — Tony Bennett
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. — Michelle Moran
Looking Backward Quotes
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards. — Dwayne Johnson
Anyone hewing to the benchmarks, which are backward-looking, they’re not about the future. They are about what has worked. We’re all about what is going to work. — Cathie Wood
I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it. — Astor Piazzolla
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
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
People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture. — Master P
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? — Jay Leno
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
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers
Step Backward Quotes
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. — Abraham Maslow
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A. A. Milne
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot. — A. A. Gill
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. — Kate Winslet
You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this. — Dogen
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region. — Khaleda Zia
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. — Booth Tarkington
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Gopal Bose
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. — Dogen
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. — Ray Bradbury
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons
We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress — Rahul Gandhi
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? — Edvard Munch
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward. — Robert Kiyosaki
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live. — Taslima Nasrin
It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Daniel Dennett
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward. — Edward Lear
It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Dan Dennett
I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...' — Sandra Bullock
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. — Thomas A. Edison
Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward. — Bert Sugar
You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it. — Steve Jobs
Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time. — Joan Baez
If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. — Trey Anastasio
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. — Anita Desai
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards. — Peter Shilton
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