Looking Back Quotes - Page 13

• College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

  Blake Griffin

  College, Realizing, Carefree

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Years

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

  Idina Menzel

  Regret, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

  How to Dress Well

  Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

  Kevin Hart

  Strong, Funeral, Passing Away

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• It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

  Christian Marclay

  Past, Ideas, People

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• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

  Pete Townshend

  Loud, Needed, Knows

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• The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

  Matt Damon

  Believe, People, Guy

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• I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

  Rachel Boston

  New York, Should Have, Cities

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• Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

  Theodor Adorno

  Past, Kitsch, Helping

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.363, Univ of California Press

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• Every now and then it feels like it's just been a few days ago, a few weeks ago since we got started; but looking back through photographs and listening to the older albums and stuff, you can definitely feel some maturing and some distance in between the club days and where we are now

  Eddie Montgomery

  Distance, Listening, Albums

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• If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers her people to be soldiers.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Hair, Government, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think women need to have a lobby. I feel that women need to speak out. The first time a man hits you is one too many times and you need to do something about it. That something about it is walking out that door and seeking for help and never looking back.

  LaToya Jackson

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

  Charles Williams

  Promise, Church, Done

  Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

  Luke Ford

  Way, Opinion, Wince

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• Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

  Dan Quayle

  Philosophy, College, Should Have

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• Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

  Nina Dobrev

  School, Thinking, Giving

  "Nina Dobrev". www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2010.

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• For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Islands, Leaving

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• Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

  Chita Rivera

  Painful

  "Chita Rivera's Life Hits Broadway as a Musical". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 11, 2005.

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• Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.

  Dick Vitale

  Daughter, Pizzazz, Today

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• I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Fun, Records

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• Now I'm where I want to be and who I want to be and doing what I always said I would and yet I feel I haven't won at all. Running for my life and never looking back in case there's someone right behind me shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall. When the crazy wheel slows down where will I be? Back where I started.

  Tim Rice

  Running, Crazy, Fall

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• I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.

  Idris Khan

  Sports, Wall, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it is important to approach others comfortably. Instead of blaming others (for not having any friends), try looking back at yourself first.

  Yesung

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: y3sung.tumblr.com

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