Looking Back Quotes - Page 9

• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Hero, Evil, Sides

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• I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.

  Marcel Dionne

  Stupid, Opportunity, Playboy

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• Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Age, Events

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• When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Regret, Thinking, People

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

  Dido Armstrong

  Home, School, Thinking

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• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  Karl Barth

  Forgiveness, Christian, Looks

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• I made the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and looking back that was a really stupid decision

  Gordy Ainsleigh

  Running, Stupid, Feet

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• Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

  Hugh Prather

  Fear, Frustration, Needs

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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• Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at somethingand much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, 'Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,' our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

  Hortense Odlum

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

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• The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

  Anthony Holden

  Retirement, Princess, Years

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• My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Moving, Past, Talking

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes cros­sed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Grateful, Opportunity

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• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

  Jeff Bezos

  Regret, Numbers, Decision

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Compassion, Self

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

  Jeff Bezos

  Regret, Numbers, Age

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• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  Wade Boggs

  Moving On, Sports, Baseball

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sorry, Done

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• I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Our Generation, Cells

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• Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Way, Decided

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

  Kimbra

  Writing, Adventure, Thinking

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• Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

  Mary Wesley

  Teaching, Writing

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