Looking Back Quotes

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.

I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.

Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.

Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

Jace. This can't happen." I closed my eyes, thinking it would be easier to say without him looking back at me. But it wasn't. "This isn't about us. I can't leave Marc.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.