Marshall McLuhan Quotes

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

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

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

Our goal is to move forward, but we know that to avoid falling backward, we must be willing to look backward and to come to terms with what happened in the past.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

I don't really look into the past too much.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

I try very hard not to look back.

Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'

When you look back on things, your version is always perfect.