“Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.”

“The beginning of it starts at the end”

“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ”

“There are two possible ways to solving a dilemma, in justice or elsewhere; begin with the facts, and follow out their logic where it leads one, or begin with the desired outcome, and reason backward to the necessary steps to achieve it.”

“Start with the end in mind.”

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

“Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.”

“I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.”

“I do not often follow its path from a previously conceived drawing. If I have a strong feeling about its start, I do not need to know its end; the battle for solution is the most important. If the end of the work seems too complete and final, posing no question, I am apt to work back from the end, that in its finality it poses a question and not a solution.
Sometimes when I start a sculpture I begin with only a realized part; the rest is travel to be unfolded, much in the order of a dream.”