Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 3. Echoing Emergence, p. 97
“Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!”
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)
“I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.”
Ask Agnetha No. 15, Agnetha Fältskog's YouTube channel (AgnethaOfficial), 16 May 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKhvSKfMYs
“Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.”
In R.J. Cutler's 2009 documentary film The September Issue.
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm
“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
Source: The Bell Jar
