Best Backwards Quotes

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That’s backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can’t grow, they can’t solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I’m overhead.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It’s hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.

The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn’t understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn’t read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B’s went towards the window and D’s went away from it.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

People always joke that ‘dog’ spells ‘god’ backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

I don’t think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That’s when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won’t walk backwards. A horror fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he’ll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he’ll step on the cat.

It doesn’t mater if you’re a slow walker, so long as you don’t walk backwards.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

I feel like I’m going backwards, actually, as I get older. I’m regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

Don’t go backwards – you’ve already been there.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

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.

If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around – all that kind of stuff.