Quotes About Backward

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

Look forward with confidence and backwards with attitude.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.

As Steve Jobs said in his now legendary commencement address at Stanford, "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." There

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

Somewhere—somewhere there had been peace. Turn the key the other way, and the dancers would dance backward, the music play backward, vanished nights reappear Ã¢â'¬Â¦

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

I thought this couldn't happen in astronomy. Isn't celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.

From our point of view, human beings are astonishingly xenophobic. There are not many examples in our data base of spacefarers who are as sociologically backward as your species.

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.

L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

Human science cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tepestry-web of God's science.

Gravity is time moving backwards. Expansion is a force from the future. The expansion of the universe is time moving forward. Time is not moving purely in one direction. Electromagnetism is time moving forward. The Strong Force is time moving backward. The Weak Force is time moving forward.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.