Sentence examples for think backwards from inspiring English sources

In this respect, it makes sense to think backwards, which means in a first step to get a good understanding of fully renewable energy systems [1 19] and then in a second step bridge to today's energy system [20, 21].

JV: We started to think backwards: What's the scariest thing that could happen?

The backwards playing of records was advised as training for magicians by occultist Aleister Crowley, who suggested in his 1913 book Magick (Book 4) that an adept "train himself to think backwards by external means", one of which was to "listen to phonograph records, reversed".

You may have to think backwards as you plan, so that the color you want in the design shape is laid down first.

I always like to think backwards--from the big D. When you die, what will you regret if you haven't accomplished it?

"She thinks backwards from the end result," Ms. Roll said.

Sand thought him backwards and bigoted in everything but music.Chopin fled Paris in 1848 to escape the revolution, and toured England and Scotland.

"White Americans face no barriers to claiming their nationality, but blacks are often assumed to hail from Africa, a place thought more backwards and poorer than China, more than likely receiving Chinese government economic aid in the form of loans and infrastructure projects," wrote Marketus Presswood, a black American who has lived in China, in a 2013 essay for the Atlantic.

They think we talk backwards.

"I don't think we went backwards; it was a sideways step," Tortorella said.

I think we are backwards as a country if we don't start to do something about that now.