Looking Back Quotes - Page 20

• We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

  William Landay

  Moving, Men, Rough Times

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• Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

  Al Pacino

  Decision, Looking Forward, Life Is

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• Looking back, I've never had one regret.

  Ted Lindsay

  Regret

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• I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

  William Kamkwamba

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

  Jez Butterworth

  Should Have, Sitting, Pubs

  "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.

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• In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Book, School

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• Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

  Bayard Rustin

  Mean, Careers, People

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• I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Regret, Paddling

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• Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Humility, Hands

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• Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Happy Life, Realizing

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• I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

  David Stern

  Decision, Events, Pushing Forward

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Race, Different, Quiet

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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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• Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

  Agnes Denes

  Attention, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Race, Giving

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• Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Light, Guy, Cameras

  "Mark Wahlberg Talks THE GAMBLER, Shedding Sixty Pounds For The Role, THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, DEEPWATER HORIZON, and More". Interview, collider.com. December 23, 2014.

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• My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2172, Delphi Classics

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• Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

  Taylor Swift

  Teenage, Years, Live Your Life

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• I ain't looking back only forward.

  Eminem

  Song: Almost Famous, Album: Recovery, 2010

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• Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
  I wonder if
  Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
  I'll never know
  So much space to believe

  Dave Matthews

  Stars, Lying, Believe

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• It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

  Noel Gallagher

  Hate, Past, Yesterday

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• How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Falling In Love, Thinking, New Orleans

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• Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Father, Personality

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Anchor

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• I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

  Liz Garbus

  Regret, Taken, Artist

  "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Regret, Age, Actors

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