Top 135 Backwards Quotes

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

I remember watching ‘In Living Color’ at my grandmother’s house in Chicago and Kris Kross came on the screen. I felt I was a part of them because I used to wear my pants backwards and cut holes in my baseball caps to let my ponytail stick through.

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we’re still fighting against discrimination means we’ve gone backwards and that’s a shame.

India’s a fascinating country. It’s constantly changing, but there’s still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.

The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don’t stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you’re stationary. So don’t worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

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.

You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.

We nonchalantly expect that next year’s smartphone will be faster and better than this year’s, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our lives could progress at anything like the pace at which technology advances and we meekly accept it when things go backwards.

Sometimes you try to change, and you go backwards.

Afghanistan’s story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

For a genre that’s about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.

I never saw how going back to a job I loved at the No. 1 sports network in the world could be seen as a step backwards. There are people on Twitter that think it is.

That was real baseball. We weren’t playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

I’m very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, ‘Oh, I went out and bought something and didn’t realise how much it was,’ but there’s no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

Return of the Jedi’ has always been favorite. It almost goes backwards for me. ‘Return of the Jedi,’ then ‘Empire,’ then ‘Star Wars.’

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past – I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I took a little break – I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

I don’t think anybody goes onto the pitch and wants to go backwards.

When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

When you fight me, you aren’t going to be able to be so careful. They better block their face and knock me out. I’m going to hit them, kick them. I’m going to come forward. They’ll have to run, literally run, backwards. That’s the only way to get away from me. And eventually you’re going to run into the cage.

Every so often, we – women in film and TV – get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

One day I’d like to show what I can do as a coach in Germany. But I won’t bend over backwards for a job in the Bundesliga and lock myself in my house for 24 hours just to win other people’s approval.

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, ‘Back to the Future.’

You know, I’ve got a confession to make myself. I’m not really a priest, I’ve just got my shirt on backwards.

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

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!

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn’t build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.

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.

Unfortunately, from my days as national coach were going backwards in terms of we dont see it as an investment, we see it as an expense. We just have too short-term thinking, there just arent enough people with a broader vision as to how we can actually we can make Australia a force in world football.

I did everything the wrong way round. I started in an odd place, with the wrong skill set and arguably worked backwards. I began my television career in Hong Kong, making longer format films from around Asia, then I went to the other extreme – presenting local London news.

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.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion’s backwards Dior tuxedo… these ‘worst’ dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

I was interviewing Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris for a Bond film a few years ago, and the moment I sat down, my dress ripped. No more bodycon numbers for me. I had to walk out of the room backwards when I was done.

If anybody has walked down the road and someone says turn left and you take a right that’s a form of dyslexia. If you write a number down backwards or you get the numbers mixed up a little bit occasionally, that’s a form of dyslexia.

I’ve always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I’ve had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

I got bullied and got pulled backwards in my wheelchair and laughed at. I was the only Black person at my school, so I was very singled out.

If you wanted to travel backwards in time, you’re out of luck. We have theories on how it might be possible to do so, but they all involve wormholes and black holes and other stuff that would probably kill you. If you want to travel forward in time, you just have to go really fast.

I often hear things like, ‘You don’t look Latina enough,’ and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don’t look Latina?

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for ‘I Am Number Four,’ which was pretty cool. I’d never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

In a way, we’re going backwards. In the early ’80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy. I think we’re going back. I don’t know if it’s the economics or what, but things are getting more right-wing, definitely.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.