Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. — Jeff Bezos
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
Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he… — Jerry Seinfeld
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsâ€”to chaotic darkness and the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
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
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
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the… — Jacque Fresco
With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future. — Yohji Yamamoto
This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the… — Barry Alvarez
Always forwards, never backwards. — Erich Honecker
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working… — Martin Puryear
I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now. — Charlie Simpson
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. — Linda Chavez
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. — Carter Burwell
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. — Steve Goodman
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
I did the first backwards guitar solo on â€˜Iâ€™m Only Sleepingâ€™ — Dhani Harrison
Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security. — Adi Shamir
Theyâ€™d say, â€˜If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'â€™ and I would think, â€˜Geez, I didnâ€™t know the devil… — Brian Johnson

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