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Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.

Speed is not an advantage when you're moving in the wrong direction.

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

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The rapid accumulation of change is not always progress, and forward motion is not always an advance.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

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Direction is only necessary when your destination is certain but the path to get there isn't clear to you.

There are eras in which you can only move forward by going in the opposite direction.

Mircea Eliade, Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)

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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

Lois McMaster Bujold, American novelist (b. 1949)

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Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.

A misstep isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Refusing to move forward is.

If the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel won't help.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which was was forward.