Backwards Quotes - Page 3

• The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible.

  Jeremy Keith

  Friendly, Way, Compatible

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Should Have, Editors

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

  David Wolfe

  Trying, Firsts, Enlightening

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

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• The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.

  Pat Robertson

  Average, Years, Class

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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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• A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Attitude, Men, Mind

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and Republished". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 2008.

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• I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Walks

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• If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Moving, Writing, Past

  Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.190, U of Minnesota Press

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• I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

  Charlie Simpson

  Careers, Huge, Comfortable

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• Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how he swung the bat and walked off...he brought energy to the game, class to the game. He was kind of the first person I really watched. He was a big influence.

  Russell Wilson

  Games, Class, Energy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Photographer, Film

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• Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Survival, Steps, Life Is

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• Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Zero, Infinity

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• Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.

  Dana Gould

  Just Sayin

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• If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Way, Gates, Dies

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• History is written backwards but lived forwards.

  Madeleine Albright

  Written

  Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

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• I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Helping, Help Me

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Spiritual, Soul, Great Things

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Home”, p.54, eKitap Projesi

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• Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

  Sam Worthington

  Dream, World

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• I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

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• We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress

  Rahul Gandhi

  Running, Country, Party

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• It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

  Fred Allen

  Issues, Office, Faces

  Fred Allen (2007). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

  David Hasselhoff

  Writing, Land, House

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