A Quote by Peter Shilton

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

Peter Shilton

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Backwards Go One Way Only Only One Way Stand Still Way

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Peter Shilton
English - Athlete
Born: September 18, 1949

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald R. Ford

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Richard Branson

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale

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

Gerald R. Ford

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

Napoleon Hill

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

Joshua Oppenheimer

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Sugar Ray Leonard

If Donald Trump takes the nation backwards, we can lead as a state and move forward. It is up to us to stand in opposition to anything that would take Colorado backwards.

Cary Kennedy

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

John Oliver

It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.

Theo Epstein

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

Ed Asner

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Walker Percy

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Lauren Bacall

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.