A Quote by David Lee

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

David Lee

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David Lee
American - Physicist
Born: January 20, 1931

I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

Pat Croce

We can't really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward.

Didier Deschamps

I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

Jerry Seinfeld

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Dudley Moore

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

Gary Busey

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

W. Edwards Deming

I have always believed that awards are like accessories to a car. They are very similar to the rear view mirror in a car, which gives you the confidence to drive. They sure mean a lot; however, they are not the be-all and end-all of life.

Atul Kulkarni

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

Michael Waltrip

Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

Hal Elrod

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

Bill Joy

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

Anita Roddick

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuhan

You mostly defend with your head, always reacting to the movement of opponents and teammates. I had to become more aware of that, play with much more consideration, the way you drive a car: you always need to look left, right, and the rear mirror to see what's going on around you.

Jerome Boateng

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

Jim Steinman

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.