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
In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide. – Paula Deen
Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I’m lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt. – Daniel Cormier
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something. – Michelle Hunziker
I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect. – Colton Haynes
I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. – Dionne Warwick
I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance policies that level the playing field for American workers and incentivize investing in jobs here at home. – Elizabeth Esty
I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet. – Daniel Kahneman
Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know. – Fabiola Gianotti
I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I’ve always said this is the only way forward. – Mohamed ElBaradei
You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by ‘normality.’ – Morten Tyldum
And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that’s going to make the product better, which is the students and the education. – Craig Benson
I’m looking forward to the fighting with no headgear – I’m jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear. – Deontay Wilder
It’s cool to play the guitar, but to me it’s even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can’t do that themselves. – Diplo
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. – Paul Ryan
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium. – George Soros
I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something. – Edward Zwick
TIVO executives stand up and say, ‘Well, we’re not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.’ I mean, please. – Dick Wolf
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that’s what we’ve sought to do. – David Petraeus
I’ve slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward. – Mark McKinnon
Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform. – Dave Reichert
I think the amazing thing about ‘Twin Peaks’ was that it completely changed television from that point forward. – Madchen Amick
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. – Eric Alterman
