Looking Back Quotes - Page 14

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

  Luke Ford

  Way, Opinion, Wince

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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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• I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

  Reinhold Messner

  Adventure, Perspective, Important

  "Reinhold Messner: this much I know". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hurt, Thinking, Hatred

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• Looking back, I've learned that everyone is searching for three things: Identity, community, and a sense of individual purpose. These are fundamental, and if a person feels marginalized or disenfranchised, they're likely to turn to something negative, maybe drugs, maybe promiscuity, or maybe a white supremacist group.

  Christian Picciolini

  Community, Drug, Identity

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Simple

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• You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.

  Prentice Mulford

  Attitude, Mind, May

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding”, p.480, e-artnow

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• Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Believe, Careers

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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 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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• So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

  Joe Dante

  Kids, Scare, Done

  "Interview: Joe Dante on the horrors of 'The Hole'". www.mtv.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

  Charles Frazier

  Past, Thinking, Stronger

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• It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Nice, Book, Writing

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• Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Memories, Writing, Long

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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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• I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!

  Bill Hicks

  Tired, Thinking, Empty Life

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• Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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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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• 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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• Looking back, I feel bad for treating the girls the way that I have. I just hope that he knows that I'm a good person and I hope it doesn't get in the way of what could be, like, the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Courtney Robertson

  Girl, Way, Good Person

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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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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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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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