Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.
I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
I've never known anybody who is able to see what's behind him.
Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.
If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.