Looking Back Quotes - Page 10

• When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sorry, Done

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• I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Our Generation, Cells

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• Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Way, Decided

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

  Kimbra

  Writing, Adventure, Thinking

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• Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

  Mary Wesley

  Teaching, Writing

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• I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

  Duane G. Carey

  Views, Earth, Looking Forward

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• It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

  Anatole Broyard

  Love, Hygiene, Waiting

  Anatole Broyard (1974). “Aroused by Books”, Random House (NY)

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• Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.

  Ted Turner

  Father, Inspiration, Giving

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• Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Careers, Littles, Too Much

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• Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow I get back to masculinity and how men are taught to avoid showing how fragile they can be, or to people who are in constant movement.

  Omar Zuniga

  Men, People, Intuition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Roots, Tree

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• When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

  Justin Guarini

  Fall, People, Hot

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• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

  Wentworth Miller

  Luxury, Support, Community

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• I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

  Johnny Thunders

  New York, Home, Journey

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• And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Gone, Olympics

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• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  Randy Newman

  People, Viagra, Mail

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• We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Running, Knows, Accidents

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Eye, Giving

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Looks, Way

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• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Years, Play, Mexico

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• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  Adam Clymer

  Book, Two, Reason

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• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  Sam Waterston

  Waiting, Cab Drivers, Roles

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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