Looking Back Quotes

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

I don't much like looking back.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

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.

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

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

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote urgently - naïvely, I suppose, looking back.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.

Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.