Jesse Williams

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

American Actor

Jason Bateman

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

Kris Carr

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

American Author

Joe Cornish

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

English Comedian

Harvey Fierstein

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

Jeremy Paxman

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

British Journalist

Eric Roth

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

American Writer

Daniel Cameron

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.

Joshua Oppenheimer

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

British Director

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Danish Philosopher

Used when someone or something moves in the opposite direction of what is usual.

Opposite Direction

Describes a scenario that deviates from what one might normally anticipate.

Unexpected Action

Indicates a situation where improvement or advancement is not happening.

Lack of Progress

Implies that a process or situation has become worse or reverted to an earlier state.

Negative Development

Refers to the action of doing something in the reverse order from last to first.

Reverse Sequence

Used when recalling or mimicking something in the opposite sequence of its original occurrence.

Rewind Events

Describes the orientation of a person's body, with the back side facing the direction they move to.

Physical Posture

Used in physical or sports contexts to indicate moving in a way to shield or protect.

Defensive Position

 is they come in and in very subtle ways over the course of several hours, they will ask that person to tell that story backwards, and then they'll watch them squirm, and track which questions produce the highest volume of deceptive tells. Why do they do that? Well, we all do the same thing. We rehearse our words, but we rarely rehearse our gestures.

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 passage of water in the world you're on there for four days non-stop rolling backwards and forwards so it's just this real sense of adventure as you're going across you come out of drake's passage and then all of a sudden you're coming down the peninsula past all these icebergs and really entering into this

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 But the reason it's important for knuckle cracking is that, like other fluids in your body, it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules. Knuckle-crackers know that to get that satisfying pop, you stretch the joint farther than it normally goes by bending your fingers backwards, for example.

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 was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with. So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA

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 Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move. But not all types of movement are allowed. You can't bend your knee backwards, or bend your forearm in the middle, for example. Cephalopods, on the other hand, have no bones at all,

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 they feed on a variety of leaves buds and fruits in the wild and have an excellent sense of smell which helps them to find the tastiest vegetation they also have the ability to move their back legs independently from one another meaning they can walk backwards along

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 eventually filling the glass. Imagine watching the opposite happen. Here, we’d recognize time as unfolding backwards. We live in a universe where the food coloring spreads out in the water, not a universe where it collects together. In physics, this is described by

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 there was one of the craziest thing that I've ever done in my life and the coolest thing about my first marathon was I ran it backwards I was out there so long it was no one at the finish line as a matter of fact I finished in last

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 most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize

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 The antipsychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia have helped researchers work backwards to trace signatures of the disorder in the brain. Traditional antipsychotics block dopamine receptors.

Backwards

In the direction that is opposite to the one that is normal or expected.

Often appears as...

In a way that is less advanced or developed.

Often appears as...

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From the end to the beginning.

Often appears as...

In a way that places the body with the back or rear part facing in the direction of movement.

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Opposite Direction

Unexpected Action

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