Looking Back Quotes - Page 22

• It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Past, Self, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

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• It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

  Nancy Astor

  Progress, Trying, Hopeless

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• It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

  Criss Angel

  Mom, Years, Car

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  A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Photography, Brother, Photographer

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• I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

  Kirk Cameron

  Moving, Inspiration, Hero

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• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Future

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

  Kiran Desai

  Change, Past, Left Behind

  Kiran Desai (2006). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.208, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Imagine

  Journal, July 1922

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• These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.

  Harvey Broome

  Islands, Years, Age

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• I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

  Grace Kelly

  Memories, Regret, Good Memories

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

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• For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Forever, Advice

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage

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• I never waste time looking back.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Success, Waste, Wasting Time

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• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Self, Years, Generosity

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• Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

  Nicholas Stern

  Business, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse'" by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

  Leon Brown

  Life, African American, Storm

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• Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Order, People, Worst Times

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
  Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Mean, Egypt, Missing

  Priscilla Shirer (2010). “One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

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• The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Men, Hands

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• You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

  Marvin Hagler

  Motivational, Fighting, Long

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• Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

  Paul Berg

  Aerospace, Curiosity, Important

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• Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

  Jack Paar

  Race, Long, Obstacles

  "I Kid You Not".

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