The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C. K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.
To stand still today is to go backwards. . . and quickly. . . !
We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.
When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.
I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.
To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards
Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya.
Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.