Looking Back Quotes - Page 14

• You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.

  Prentice Mulford

  Attitude, Mind, May

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding”, p.480, e-artnow

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• Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Believe, Careers

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• I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Art, Drama, Mean

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Simple

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• I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Who I Am, Space

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

  P. K. Subban

  Growing Up, Appreciate, Effort

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

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• [Virginia Madsen] big part in that movie ['Class'] required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn't be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, shoehorned-in moment. Like, you would never have that moment in a movie that aspired to be what that movie did today.

  Rob Lowe

  Virginia, Vintage, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.

  Nelly

  Song, Kids, Boys

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hurt, Thinking, Hatred

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• Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.

  Rupert Grint

  Long, Film, Seems

  "The power of three". tabloid! Interview, gulfnews.com. July 18, 2007.

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• If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Mountain, Desert

  "Fox411 QA: Morgan Freeman on why he believes he is God and which successful film he hated making". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. July 06, 2012.

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• But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Regret, Asking Yourself Why, Answers

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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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• There have been so many moments in our young life and our young career, but looking back it would have been great to share some of those with my family members, or have not worked so hard, I would always just be working during some of the fun times.

  Sean Mackin

  Fun, Careers, Moments

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• I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

  Harvey Pekar

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Two, Mail

  "Transcript: Everything Hillary Clinton Said on the Email Controversy". Press conference, time.com. March 10, 2015.

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• Looking back, I feel bad for treating the girls the way that I have. I just hope that he knows that I'm a good person and I hope it doesn't get in the way of what could be, like, the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Courtney Robertson

  Girl, Way, Good Person

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• He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

  J. K. Rowling

  Taken, Dark, Way

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• When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

  Mark Nepo

  Wiggling, Different, Looks

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Attitude, Confused, Eye

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

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• You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live for always, except that one day they just step sideways, without looking back or saying good-bye, and vanish forever.

  Sally Nicholls

  Bye, Forever, One Day

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• Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Memories, Writing, Long

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• I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Scared, Wanted

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• The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever: Someday you and I will be the only two left.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Flames, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Two, Photo Of Me

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