Quotes About Retrospect

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet we can assess a man's views on a moral issue - which slavery unquestionably was - by what others in the same age and facing the same realities thought and did.

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

The emotion was, in retrospect, a warning.

I am happy and satisfied at the end of my career, but not much. Yes, I would have loved to leave the stage in a better way.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Everything makes sense in hindsight.

In retrospect, we can see all the inconsequential and unnoticed paths of our lives become necessary parts of the main thoroughfare, the road itself laid out for us from above

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

God says that Moses will see his back as he passed by him. "Thus," Father Kolvenbach wrote, "looking back over the length and breadth of his life the abbot could see for himself the passage of God." The examen helps you see God in retrospect.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

Can't you ever leave murder alone, woman? Even murder in retrospect?

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Look, when my career is over and done with, I'm the one who can look back and say that I was the champ.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.

In retrospect, Reston was convinced that the Vienna bullying became a crucial factor in the subsequent decision to send 18,000 advisory and support troops to Vietnam, and though others around Kennedy retained some doubts about this, it appeared to be part of a derivative link, one more in a chain of events which saw the escalation of the Cold War in Kennedy's first year.