Best 76 quotes in «backwards quotes» category

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

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

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

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

We all get distracted,  the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

The vision of the Progressive has often been but to walk forward while facing backward; the business of the Reactionary, but that of walking backward while facing forward; henceforth the fallout is oftentimes, and obviously enough, but the formulation and the construction of obstacles in life and hurdles on-site, as long as there are cliffs on edge.

Does the troll know he's got his head on back to front?

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

But I’m not one to read a book backwards.

True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

Where you are coming from doesn't matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me

'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.