#backward

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. ↗

— Josef Albers

#backward #create #historians #leave #looking

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! ↗

— Edgar Cayce

#forward #going #move #progress #thing

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#been #blown #book #came #course

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#approach #backwards #connect #destiny #difference

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#backwards #connect #destiny #difference #dots

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards. ↗

— Elton John

#anywhere #backwards #fly #flying #forwards

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#always #athlete #backwards #been #before

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#historian #looking #prophet

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#amazing #around #backwards #baghdad #dad