„Don't look back!“

„Take a little rewind back to 1999,
It's not the same place don't look front, better look behind“

—  Slim Burna Nigerian singer and record producer 1988

"(All Day)" (track 2)
I'm On Fire (2013)

„When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.“

—  George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959

As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm

„Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.“

—  Peter S. Beagle, buch The Last Unicorn

The Unicorn, to Schmendrick, as the harpy Celaeno kills Mommy Fortuna
The Last Unicorn (1982 film)

„I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.“

—  James Frey, buch A Million Little Pieces

Quelle: A Million Little Pieces

„It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.“

—  Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

Quelle: Flipped (2001)

„She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), She Belongs to Me

„Avoid running at all times.
And don't look back— something might be gaining on you.“

—  Satchel Paige American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues 1906 - 1982

"How to Stay Young" Collier's Magazine (13 June 1953)
Kontext: Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society— the social ramble ain't restful.
Avoid running at all times.
And don't look back— something might be gaining on you.

„If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.“

—  Dick Cheney American politician and businessman 1941

[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060619-10.html, June 19, 2006
2000s, 2006

„Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch The Screaming Staircase

Quelle: The Screaming Staircase

„Sometimes, I sit back and look at life from a different angle. Don't know if I'm God's child, or I'm Satan's angel.“

—  50 Cent American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer 1975

I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)

„Confidence isn't always out front and screaming, 'Look at me, look at me.'Confidence can be sitting back for a moment and letting someone else take the lead when you need to. You don't always have to be showboating.“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)

„You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.“

—  Margaret Atwood, buch Cat's Eye

Quelle: Cat's Eye

„Don't look back
all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before
I don't have to see you every day,
but I just want to know youre there“

—  Zooey Deschanel American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter 1980

"Don't Look Back".
Volume Two (2010)

„Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.“

—  Christopher Paolini, buch Eragon

Quelle: Eragon

„I look forward and see myself look back.“

—  Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

„Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?“

—  Fred Astaire American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter 1899 - 1987

Fred Astaire, interviewed by Dan Navarro for American Classic Screen Magazine, September/October 1978.

„Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882