Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 158
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Variant: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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Antonio Moreno (1887–1967) Spanish-American film actor and director
Other rewards do not count, comparatively. The joy of leisure is an illusion. The chief reason for my liking serials for as long as I did was because they kept me constantly at work, whereas feature pictures do permit of a week or more idleness in between. <br class="br"> The True Story of My Life http://www.public.asu.edu/~bruce/Taylor57.txt (November 8 - December 13, 1924)
“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
The New York Times (9 Feb 1986)
“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
May 1997, World Wide Developers Conference (online video) http://everystevejobsvideo.com/qa-with-steve-jobs-wwdc-1997/52:15/52:22 <br class="br">1990s
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 374
“The work of memory collapses time.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
“Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Vedânta philosophy : Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâm
Context: To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher
(1847)