Rear View Quotes:

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Views, Independence, Rear View

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Mirrors, Views, Perspective, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.

- Stewart Francis

topic: Dad, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

- Roger Waters

topic: Thinking, Mirrors, Views, Premonition, Rear View

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

- Bill Joy

topic: Thinking, Mirrors, Views, Forward Thinking, Rear View

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

- Jim Steinman

topic: Funny Life, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!

- Dave Sitek

topic: Sunset, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Home, Past, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Insperational, Mirrors, Market Risk, Investment Success

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Future, Mirrors, Human Nature, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

- David Lee

topic: Mirrors, Views, Car, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Past, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

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

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Change, Views, Mirrors, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

- Dudley Moore

topic: Mirrors, Views, Safety, Drive Safely, Workplace Safety

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

- Sharon Stone

topic: Mirrors, Feet, Long, Gals, Rearview Mirror

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

- Fred Upton

topic: Mirrors, Yesterday, Allies, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

- Ashley Olsen

topic: Men, Mirrors, Body, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

- Sherman Alexie

source: "All rage and heart". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

topic: Writing, Mean, Mirrors, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

- David Schwimmer

topic: Mirrors, Car, Guy, Rearview Mirror, Rear View

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Views, Old Things, Mirrors, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.

- John Kasich

topic: Mirrors, Views, Looks, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

- Reba McEntire

topic: Brother, Views, Airports, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Mirrors, Light, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Clever, Reading, Thinking, Ambulance, Rear View

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Blow, Views, America, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

- Alan Caruba

topic: Dark, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.

- Max Beesley

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Mirrors, Views, People, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

- Richard Lewis

topic: Funny, Humor, Mirrors, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Good Day, Men, Views, Peripheral Vision, Checking Out

I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

- Pat Croce

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Memories, Views, Mirrors, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

- Anita Roddick

source: The Independent Newspaper (UK), August 22, 1997.

topic: Running, Business, Mirrors, Market Research, Rear View

Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

- Hal Elrod

topic: Thinking, Past, Dysfunction, Past Experiences, Rear View

Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.

- Frosty Wooldridge

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Moving, Spiritual Perfection, Rear View

You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Inspirational, Lds, Views, Rear View

You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

- Warren W. Wiersbe

topic: Christian, Moving, Past, Learn From The Past, Rudders

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

- John Irving

source: John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.341, Arcade Publishing

topic: Eye, Mirrors, Views, Upkeep, Rear View

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Mirrors, Views, Car, Risk Management, Rear View