Looking Back Quotes - Page 15

• Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do

  McKayla Maroney

  Moving, Helping, Things To Do

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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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• 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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• There have been so many moments in our young life and our young career, but looking back it would have been great to share some of those with my family members, or have not worked so hard, I would always just be working during some of the fun times.

  Sean Mackin

  Fun, Careers, Moments

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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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• I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Who I Am, Space

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Doors, Ceramics

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely, but they've committed to the place, and they know that they need to make certain kinds of concessions. They change themselves in some way to fit in. They're looking forward as much as they're still looking backward.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, Decision, Needs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

  P. K. Subban

  Growing Up, Appreciate, Effort

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

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• [Virginia Madsen] big part in that movie ['Class'] required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn't be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, shoehorned-in moment. Like, you would never have that moment in a movie that aspired to be what that movie did today.

  Rob Lowe

  Virginia, Vintage, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.

  Nelly

  Song, Kids, Boys

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Art, Drama, Mean

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• Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Believe, Teaching

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

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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