A Quote by Margaret Barber

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.

Margaret Barber

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Margaret Barber
English - Writer
May 7, 1869 - August 24, 1901

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

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.

Rahm Emanuel

Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely, but they've committed to the place, and they know that they need to make certain kinds of concessions. They change themselves in some way to fit in. They're looking forward as much as they're still looking backward.

Nguyen Viet Thang

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

Clint Eastwood

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel de Montaigne

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

John L. Casti

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Muriel Spark

You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.

Buck Brannaman

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.

Harold Ford, Jr.

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.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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.

Douglas MacArthur

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.