Behind You Quotes - Page 10

• You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
  That is more than your own.
  Let it brush your cheeks
  As it divides and rejoins behind you.
  
  The trees you planted in childhood have grown
  Too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
  Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Breathing, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• If you like my poems let them
  walk in the evening, a little behind you

  e. e. cummings

  Littles, Evening, Walks

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.56, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Retirement, Hard Work, Achievement

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.40, Vintage

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• The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

  Ridley Pearson

  Get Better, Pages, Way

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• I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.

  Michael Weatherly

  Song, Play, People

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• It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Nice, Fans

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• No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

  Nico

  Team, Order, Car

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• One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.

  Earl Lloyd

  Kids, Men, Years

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• There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

  Morgan Freeman

  Fall, Eye, Exercise

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Patience, Giving, Feelings

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• It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Cheer, Fun, Practice

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  If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

  Roberto Clemente

  People, Earth, Chance

  "Standing Cheer for Roberto" by John Wilson, The Sporting News, p. 44, February 20, 1971.

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• It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

  William John Locke

  Behinds, Depends, Fronts

  William John Locke (1902). “The Usurper”

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• Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.

  Robert Graves

  Boys, Blood, Hands

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Self

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.382, New Harbinger Publications

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• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Boys, Parent, Kitchen

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• When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?

  Scott Kenemore

  Fighting, Cutting, Knowing

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• If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Leaving, Singing

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• These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.

  Anne Royall

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

  Meryl Streep

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Numbers, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

  Robin Zander

  Years, Play, Guitar

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage and you talk about how much you despise the children and what you would like to do to them on an airplane? That's the only time I would gladly take a terrorist on. It'd be worth it to get rid of these children.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Airplane, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Past, World

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, October 7, 2014.

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