Looking Backward Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
— Jim Bakker
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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person…
— Harvey Broome
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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…
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
— Burt Lancaster
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Robert Henri
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The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new…
— Raymond Charles Barker
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's…
— Herman Melville
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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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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
— Charles Yu
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I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't…
— Rodman Philbrick
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You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.
— Karen Marie Moning
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In order to move on from something of our past we have to change our way of thinking and our looking backward attitude.
— Anurag Prakash Ray
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You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
— Steve Jobs
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You Can't Connect The Dots Looking Forward; You Can Only Connect Them By Looking Backward. So You Have To Trust That The Dots Will Somehow…
— Pacifiersucker
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Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of…
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
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I try to avoid looking forward or looking backward, and try to keep looking upward.
— Charlotte Brönte
Who Wrote These Looking Backward Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Looking Backward Quotes as follows: