Rear View Mirror Quotes

• You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Moving, Past

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• We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Mirrors, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

  Jim Steinman

  Funny Life, Mirrors, Views

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• The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Past, Mirrors, Views

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• Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

  Joel Osteen

  Mirrors, Today, Life Is

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2016

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• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

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• I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

  Pat Croce

  Memories, Mirrors, Views

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Future, Mirrors, Human Nature

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• Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Past, Dysfunction

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• I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mirrors, Looks, Rearview Mirror

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, Old Things

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• [H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

  Alan Caruba

  Dark, Mirrors, Views

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• The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

  David Lee

  Mirrors, Views, Car

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moving

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• I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

  John Irving

  Eye, Mirrors, Views

  John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.341, Arcade Publishing

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• Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

  Dov Davidoff

  Mirrors, Light, Views

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jan 27, 2012

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• Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, Mirrors

  The Independent Newspaper (UK), August 22, 1997.

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• Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Mirrors, Views, Car

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• You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Mirrors, Body

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• Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.

  Stewart Francis

  Dad, Mirrors, Views

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• I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Clever, Reading, Thinking

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