Looking Back Quotes - Page 20

• We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

  William Landay

  Moving, Men, Rough Times

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• Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

  Al Pacino

  Decision, Looking Forward, Life Is

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• Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Happy Life, Realizing

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• Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Humility, Hands

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• I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Regret, Paddling

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• Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

  Bayard Rustin

  Mean, Careers, People

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• In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Book, School

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• Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

  Jez Butterworth

  Should Have, Sitting, Pubs

  "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.

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• I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

  William Kamkwamba

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

  Agnes Denes

  Attention, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Achievement, Done, Proud

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• Looking back, I've never had one regret.

  Ted Lindsay

  Regret

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• I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

  David Stern

  Decision, Events, Pushing Forward

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Years, Calligraphy

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

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• I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

  Liz Garbus

  Regret, Taken, Artist

  "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Regret, Age, Actors

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• The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sexy, Long, Waiting

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• Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, College, Men

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Men, Roots

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• The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

  Joseph Addison

  Memories, Animal, May

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.563

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• Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

  Muriel Spark

  Home, Looking Forward, Going Home

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.63, Canongate Books

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Father, Personality

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Anchor

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• I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

  David Lynch

  Situations In Life, Self, Wife

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

  Jennie Finch

  Jesus, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Interview with Gary Leland, fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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