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You can't look forward and backward at the same time. — Coleman Young

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton

But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.

~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through. — Pearl Zhu

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. — Robert Brault

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! — Edgar Cayce

It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward. — Siri Hustvedt

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. — Stanley Crouch

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way. — Sharon Shinn

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. — Charles Spurgeon

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. — John L. Casti

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before. — Ambrose Bierce

Jesus, you're so bloody ... forward."
"You don't get anywhere in life by going backward. — Samantha Towle

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. — Michelle Moran

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. — James Altucher

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee

History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses. Ten — Yuval Noah Harari

Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain. — Priyavrat Thareja

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time! — Lawrence M. Krauss

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward. — Guillermo Del Toro

But one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever. — Kate Atkinson

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward. — Todd Stocker

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. — Connie Zweig

Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight. — Karen Salmansohn

You live it forward, but understand it backward. — Abraham Verghese

Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. — Robert Frost

The grandpa just stares backward at a world that no longer exists, or forward at a world beyond his comprehension. — David R. Gillham

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. — Gloria Steinem

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be. — Herman Melville

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. — William Shakespeare

I know you don't understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward," he says. — Zoe Cruz

Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say. — Bryant McGill

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. — Robert Breault

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward. — Frank Herbert

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward. — Nancy Astor

A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still — Sunday Adelaja

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Wither thou goest, there goest I, two flames sparked from but one ember; both forward and backward doth time fly, wither thou art, remember. — Karen Marie Moning

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward. — Douglas MacArthur

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. — Sarah Dessen

Step backward and assess the situation. if you can't do that, step forward and take charge. — Sydney Wilhelmy

The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he's making us into. — J.D. Greear

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises — John Piper

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. — Eric Roth

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. — Nancy Friday

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward. — Greg Maddux

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. — Iggy Pop

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. — Ajahn Chah

You can't look forward and backward ... — Coleman Young

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. — James Van Praagh

He who moves not forward, goes backward. - Goethe — Mark W. Johnson

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. — Frances Mayes

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still. — Pearl Zhu

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now. — Lou Gaglia

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward. — Honor Blackman

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! — Joseph Smith Jr.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence. — Anthony Kiedis

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward. — Jack Welch

Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. — Barbara Kingsolver

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton

Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward. — Victoria Addino

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Stop looking backward. Life isn't lived in that direction. Your future isn't in that direction. It's forward, out into the horizon ahead of you. — F.E. Feeley Jr.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward. — Patrick Stewart

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. — Jesse Jackson

FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. — Christopher Marlowe

In most commercial ways we're a pretty forward country. In these moral ways we're content to be a pretty backward country. — G.K. Chesterton

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. — Stephen Gardiner

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker

Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward. — Anasazi Foundation

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race. — Edward Young

Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward. — Christopher Hitchens

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. — E. Lynn Harris

Time moved forward, but the mind was restless and stubborn, and it skipped to wherever it pleased, often to the past: backward, always backward. — Edan Lepucki

Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true? — Karen Essex

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. — Dan Simmons

Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case. — Karen Foxlee

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward. — Soren Kierkegaard

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. — MC Paul Barman

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke

We can't go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me? — Renee Carlino

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond. — Umair Haque

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them. — Anasazi Foundation