We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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.
Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.
I speed up past mirrors.
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.