Looking Back Quotes - Page 24

• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Life, Getting Older

  "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Looks, Forget

  Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

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• Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Light, Flames

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

  Jonah Lomu

  Rugby, Surreal, Whole Life

  "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Tyrants, Wife

  Herman Melville (2000). “White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

  Anna Wintour

  Inspirational, Fashion, Looking Forward

  "The September Issue". Documentary, 2009.

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• They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Trying, Impossible, Lifetime

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

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• Don't look back - you're not going that way.

  Unknown

  Way, Looks, Have A Nice Day

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• The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Praying

  Terry Tempest Williams (2002). “Red: passion and patience in the desert”, Vintage

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• Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, Worry, Decision

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “The Essential Dale Carnegie: Curated Wisdom from 3 Bestselling Books”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

  Anthony de Mello

  Happiness, Couple, Lying

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