Neil Armstrong Quotes

If I see an ending, I can work 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.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Work backward from your goal.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

I'm a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it's not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

There are no dead ends, just detours.