If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
When I look back on everything, I'm really amazed by my career.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Nostalgia should not set policy.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
I don’t like trying to predict the future. I am a historian. I have enough trouble predicting the past.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
You shouldn't expect people in the past to do things they couldn't have done.
I couldn't ever be a better player than I was in 1988.
When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.
