Backtracking Quotes:

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Strong, Memories, Short Life, Overlapping, Backtracking

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: People, Sticks, Stories, Interrogation, Backtracking

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

- Bruno Mars

source: "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

topic: Trying, Needs, Motto, Backtracking

President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.

- Jay Leno

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Years, Backtracking

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

- Mariano Rajoy

topic: Change, Thinking, Talking, Backtracking