#backward

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#divide #force #forward #i #looks

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#help #how #i #learn #left

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#backwards #direction #going #group #guess

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#approached #backwards #basic #failure #get

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#backward #finest #finest hour #forward #hour

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#bend #get #heads #our #over

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#backwards #become #decided #feel #i