Quotes About Retrospect

Honestly, in retrospect, when I referred to the actors from 'Prince' as non-actors or non-professionals, it was actually a great disservice to them. The fact is that they are all actors and should be viewed that way by the industry. It was our casting process that was non-professional.

Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

In retrospect all fools become wise.

We seem to realize things when its too late to fix it...call them lessons learned.

Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

No action in the present is an action planned with a view of its effect on the future. When the future, bearing its own events, arrives, its ancestry is then traced in a trancelike retrospect, at the end of which, their mouths and eyes wide with their astonishment, the people in a small place reveal themselves to be like children being shown the secrets of a magic trick.

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

She was fascinated with how lives can change after one tiny moment that didn't even seem consequential at the time, but in retrospect altered the trajectory of life.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

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.

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

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

it was like '65 or '68 again

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

everything was obvious in retrospect. They even had a name for it: "hindsight bias." It referred to the difficulty of remembering how little you knew at the time, how uncertain things were, before they all played out. Even wildly contingent events looked inevitable in retrospect. But they weren't. And it's actually psychologically difficult to imagine not knowing back then what you know now.

Things always become obvious after the fact

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.