Algis Budrys (1931–2008) American writer
The Executioner, p. 122 (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Ask Agnetha No. 15, Agnetha Fältskog's YouTube channel (AgnethaOfficial), 16 May 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKhvSKfMYs
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) American writer
The Executioner, p. 122 (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“I look back and think I'm a smart person! What the hell was I thinking?”
Britney Spears (1981) American singer, dancer and actress
Britney: For the Record (2008).
“I look forward and see myself look back.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet
15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
“I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now.
-- Time Stand Still (1987)”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author
Rush Lyrics
“Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!”
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
Variants of "the Four Mottos":
Look up and not down;
Look out and not in.
Look forward and not back;
Lend a hand!
As used in Our New Crusade (1884)
Look up and not down;
Look forward and not back;
Look out and not in; —
Lend a hand!
Handwritten version published in an 1917 edition
Ten Times One is Ten (1870)
“Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.”
Anna Wintour (1949) English editor-in-chief of American Vogue
In R.J. Cutler's 2009 documentary film The September Issue.