Taking a Step Back Quotes

I belong to the just-wait-a-minute club.

I think sometimes I have been drawn into trying to be too aggressive too early. I have learnt that I can give myself time.

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.

I retired in Formula One and I think it was the right time, so I'm happy with my decision.

I got to play with incredible musicians, but it happened really fast. I couldn't believe it was all happening, and so by the time I was, like 18, 19, I sort of took a break and was just like, 'I'm not ready for this.'

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'

I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.