„Looking back on things, the view always improves.“

„but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Forrás: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

„Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.“

—  Anna Wintour English editor-in-chief of American Vogue 1949

In R.J. Cutler's 2009 documentary film The September Issue.

„I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.“

—  Indra Nooyi Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive 1955

„Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.“

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).

„The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.“

—  Peter Benchley, könyv Jaws

Forrás: Jaws

„Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject.“

—  Neil Postman American writer and academic 1931 - 2003

Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Kontextus: Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, "If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?" …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.

„There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.“

—  Peter Newmark English translation scholar 1916 - 2011

Forrás: Manual De Traduccion / A Textbook of Translation

„The thing about Wagner is we’re always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites … There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can’t represent both views on stage at once.“

—  Daniel Barenboim Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor 1942

Q&A: Daniel Barenboim http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10044601/Proms-2013-Daniel-Barenboim-interview.html, 2 November 2012.

„Uncertain of principles, we fall back on emotion; unfamiliar with the past, we are afraid of the future. Increasingly we look to men, ideas, and institutions not from the point of view of how they work, but from the point of view of how they ought to work…“

—  Henry Steele Commager American historian 1902 - 1998

Forrás: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 11

„When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.“

—  George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959

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

„I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.“

—  Karl Kraus Czech playwright and publicist 1874 - 1936

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

„I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.“

—  James Frey, könyv A Million Little Pieces

Forrás: A Million Little Pieces

„Whenever you look back and say, "If," you know you're in trouble. There's no such thing as "if." The only thing that counts is what really happened.“

—  D.J. MacHale, könyv The Merchant of Death

Változat: Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
Forrás: The Merchant of Death

„The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon.“

—  Frankie Boyle Scottish comedian 1972

Mock the Week

„Confidence isn't always out front and screaming, 'Look at me, look at me.'Confidence can be sitting back for a moment and letting someone else take the lead when you need to. You don't always have to be showboating.“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)

„One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.“

—  Patricia Briggs, könyv Bone Crossed

Forrás: Bone Crossed

„They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.“

—  Martin Amis, könyv Time's Arrow

Forrás: Time's Arrow

„The mere suggestion that it might be possible to look at a thing from more than one point of view was infuriating to these people.“

—  Neal Stephenson, könyv Seveneves

"Five Thousand Years Later"; referring to the Diggers
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

„He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.“

—  Sarah Dessen, könyv This Lullaby

Forrás: This Lullaby