A Quote by Iggy Pop
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.
Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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.
i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
As far as me, I'm just looking forward to the future. There's a lot of people that look to the past. I've learned from the past, absolutely. I know my past absolutely. I'm not discrediting or... ignoring my past in any way, but my focus has always been moving forward, moving forward into the future.
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.
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