Backwards Quotes - Page 11

• I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

  Stuart Rose

  Recommendations, Chiefs, Chief Executives

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Horse, Buddhism

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• 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

  Children, Sleep, Next Day

  Joan Baez (2012). “And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  Bruce Jenner

  Wrong Number, Two, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mean, Doors, Delay

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Past, Mirrors, Views

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• If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
  (I - The Great Leap Backwards)

  John Ralston Saul

  Kings, Exercise, Groups

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Looking Forward, Looking Back

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Montel Williams

  Ideas, People, Way

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• The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

  Anne Sexton

  Trouble, Therapy

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, World

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sleep, Bird, Today

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• Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

  Eric Roth

  Live Your Life, Needs, Matter

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• 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

  Technology, Trying, Figures

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.

  Richard Rohr

  Faith, Christian, Real

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• I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kind, Expatriates, Train Stations

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eye, Men, Climbing

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• Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

  Earl Nightingale

  Believe, Successful, Law

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Election

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• I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

  Donald Miller

  Moving, Church, Better Person

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Jul 15, 2013

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• Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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