Life Quote by Zia Haider Rahman Download Open image ““Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”” — Zia Haider Rahman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
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“IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.” — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.” — N. Lombardi Jr Copy Share Image
“We have to live life forwards, but can only understand it backwards.” — Claire Seeber Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Life too is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“My point is that you could think of the people you meet in your life as questions, there to help you figure out who you are, what you’re made of, and what you want. In life, as in our new version of the game, you start off not knowing the answer. It’s only when the particles rub against each other… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
“As I reached the highest step, I turned. Spread along the platform was a mass of bobbing black hair like a long wave of silk. Suddenly I felt the first stirrings of what I would later come to recognize as kinship, a feeling that alarmed me, a sense that I was of a piece with a group of people for… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other signals human beings give out - body language or what Freud graphically called the "betrayal that oozes out of him at every pore," betrayal, that is, of what they really mean. I have that to this day, and… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget. — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels do that news cannot do. In other words, this basic technique of news - just one among many - is something a novel can use, but a novel can deploy a multitude of other techniques also. Novels are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my outlook on everything and yet I'm not even sure how. It must be because in my formative years it was everything to me, the single place of beauty in my life, and of breathtaking beauty at that. I… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
