Quotes About Retrospect

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Humour, if one looks into it, is principally a matter of retrospect.

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.

In retrospect, military defeats and victories acquire a false sense of inevitability about them, whether we are looking at the German defeat of France in 1940 or the claimed elimination of the last vestiges of Isis in 2019.

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

In retrospect, the red flags existed every few feet, but nature provides us with a denial mechanism, else we couldn't make it through the days, as Freud teaches us, as Nietzsche teaches us, as O'Neill teaches us, as T. S. Eliot teaches us. Unfortunately, I was never a good student.

When asked if Mia Farrow's character Hanna in Hannah and her sisters was a good sister or bad sister) SB: And now , in retrospect, have you made up your mind yet? WA: Well, in retrospect, I think she's not so nice. If you look closely, she's not as nice as you imagine.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

I had a home in Las Vegas for about eight years, starting in 1978.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

Ali sada je prekasno, put do nivoa pakla je poplo?an naknadnim pretpostavkama.

In some cases, it seems in retrospect that there was actually this unconscious purpose behind the event, as though our unconscious knew that something important had to be learned and, painful as it was, it was the only way it could be brought into experience.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.

But perhaps it is presumptuous of me to assume that they will be missing something. Perhaps in retrospect this has been a story not about Sacramento at all, but about the things we lose and the promises we break as we grow older;

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

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.