Turning Your Back Quotes by John F. Kerry, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Ray McGovern, Clayton Christensen, Albert Camus, Gene Roddenberry and many others.
I don’t think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that’s okay. We can’t be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, “What did you think you’d accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state,” or something like that.
Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
You can’t take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say…this is the only place that [life] happens. It’s like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
