A Quote by Connie Zweig

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

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Connie Zweig
Born: April 4, 1949

If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever.

Stephen Hawking

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

May Sarton

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

Doug Liman

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Sean Astin

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

Robert Breault

The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth.

Gary Chapman

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

James Van Praagh

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

Gary Hamel

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Jim Coleman

We have an industrial base - one that, if made to take orders rather than being allowed in the vacuum of leadership to create them, if enabled by the elimination of cost-plus contracting to produce and achieve rather than waste and receive, could make something worth the cost rather than making work that costs us our dreams.

Rick Tumlinson

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

J. I. Packer

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

Ansel Elgort

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

Robert Smithson

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.