Looking Backward Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

• You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. — Burt Lancaster
• Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. — Henry Ward Beecher
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers
• The historian is a prophet looking backward. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu
• 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
• You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning
• 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
• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. — Steve Jobs
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Jim Bakker
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Harvey Broome
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Burt Lancaster
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Robert Henri
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Raymond Charles Barker
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Herman Melville
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Josef Albers
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Charles Yu
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Rodman Philbrick
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Karen Marie Moning
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Anurag Prakash Ray
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Steve Jobs
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Pacifiersucker
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• 1 Looking Backward Quote by Charlotte Brönte