Backwards Quotes - Page 14

• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Down And, Upside Down

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• Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

  Monique Coleman

  Girl, Stars, Fun

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• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Existence, Courses

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• 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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• The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Boards, Bishops

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5

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• This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

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• You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

  Ryan Stiles

  Shirts, Confession, Priests

  "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

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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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• 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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• We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Unity, Together, Stills

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Looking Forward, Looking Back

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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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• 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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• 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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• My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

  Derek Jacobi

  Book, Wind, Hands

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• They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  William Penn

  Religion, Watches, Authority

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Done, Reason

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