#backward

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#back #backwards #clear #find #forward

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#broke #city #down #dropped #marathon

The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#historian #looking #prophet

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

#backwards #better #book #delusions #excellent

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#backward #cannot #english #incapable #internet

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ↗

— Al Boliska

#backwards #ever #golf #noticed #spells

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bit #first #i #i do #into

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#ben #corn #ever #field #first