“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

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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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

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“The only real formula for real success is Work and Faith. All may achieve this sort of success for all may work and the only happiness, the only success, is in labor.”

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.
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
1990s

“While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.”

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)

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

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“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.

“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher

(1847)

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

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