Marc Gasol

I'm somebody that sets goals, enjoys the preparation and the planning to achieve those goals, and then really enjoys going through that plan really disciplined and achieving those goals... I enjoy the whole process. If you fail, you can backtrack and see, 'OK, that didn't go well, let's try something else and let's go that other route.

Spanish Basketball Player

Karen Finerman

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

American Businesswoman

Corey Taylor

I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

American Musician

Chris Claremont

The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With films, you sit down in a seat and once the projector starts going you're stuck for the next two hours. There are no do-overs, rewinding or starting again.

British Writer

Lance Morrow

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

American Writer

Jessie Reyez

I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.

Canadian Musician

Will Oldham

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

Used when someone changes their mind or reverses a previous choice due to an issue.

Revised Decisions

Implies acknowledging a mistake and reverting to an earlier stance or action.

Admission of Error

Suggests starting over again to correct a problem or because the current approach is not working.

Restarting Process

Literally reversing one's physical path; often used by explorers or travelers.

Literally Returning

In searching or problem-solving, it refers to reviewing previous steps to find an error.

Problem Solving

When lost or in danger, it suggests a safe return to a known location.

Safety Measure

 or an intersection. But what happens at either of those places? If someone encounters a dead end, they should backtrack to the last intersection. But they also need to mark it, so no one wastes time and goes back there.

The World Machine PIPE...

 So, I'll tell you. But I'll have to backtrack a little first. Before the scientific revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known,

David Deutsch: A new way...

 This mountain is full of surprises. We have followed yet another dead end. So, we have to backtrack an hour

Backtrack