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We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.


Marshall McLuhan

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BYRD BAGGETT Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
UNKNOWN If you want to drive ahead, look through the windscreen and drive, not through the rear-view mirror!
RAJUDA looking in the rear-view mirror.
STEVEN COOPER On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror
FRANK TYGER I am keeping my view forward, but sometimes the rear-view mirror distracts me.
LORI BRAUTIGAM The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
DUDLEY MOORE The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it
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GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,
RANDY ADAMS The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer ...
ADAM LEITH GOLLNER You can hang it from your rear view mirror and you get to park in the handicapped spaces.
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GREG MATTHEWS Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the...
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JOE CLINTON 'Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and ...
DARIUS RUCKER If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibil...
GELSEY KIRKLAND I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This cannot be about what's coming in the future. It has to be about what's here now, in the present...
ELAINE PHILLIPS Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
HELENE LAGERBERG The future teaches you to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold
MANIC STREET PREACHERS The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
BIL KEANE It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN MAXWELL The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
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PHILIP K. DICK we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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BOB HAMLEY I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
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TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
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The universe may for...
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NICK HORNBY Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
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BRENT HIEGGELKE Reflections in the heart are more pronounced than those we view in a mirror.
DIXIE WATERS The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We know that the aircraft broke into several pieces and there was a fire at the rear part of the air...
CHRIS CHIAMES Don't look in the mirror at yourself, look into your eyes to reach your subconscious mind & soul.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ...
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DAN SHEERAN We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
BLAISE PASCAL The loss only shows how far backwards we have gone in Africa, ... But all we can do now is to roll b...
CLIVE BARKER Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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ODO SIMON AGBO We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD One day in the future men will look at the present and wish for an undo option.
EVANS BIYA We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. I...
SAM HOUSTON In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
BLAISE PASCAL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts throu...
BARRY LONG The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines o...
JIM BISHOP The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered.

"How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wid...
DEBRA ANASTASIA We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves a...
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GARRY MARSHALL I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and thi...
GARRY MARSHALL We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
GARRY MARSHALL Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
GARRY MARSHALL My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi...
GARRY MARSHALL I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL There is more to life than show business.
GARRY MARSHALL Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I sp...
GARRY MARSHALL I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represent...
GARRY MARSHALL It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can ...
GARRY MARSHALL When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
GARRY MARSHALL In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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