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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• The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Positive, Attitude, Reflection

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

  Tony Arata

  Dream, Eye, Wide

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• The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

  Allen Ginsberg

  Floating, Fleeting, World

  Aperture, Richard Avedon, Eric Fischl, Allen Ginsberg (1985). “The Human Street: Photographs”, Aperture

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  I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cows, Next, Milk

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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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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