Quotes About Retrospective

Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

They conjure up the retrospective vision of an unsurpassable happiness, enjoyed in the past, unattainable every after, yet enduringly alive in the memory: a bygone happiness ended by death; and not, as George III's paraphrase implies, a present happiness menaced by death.

Dana followed a specific structure: Set the stage. Gather data. Generate insights. Decide what to do. Close the retrospective.

Then ask everyone in the room to speak. When someone doesn't speak at the beginning of the retrospective, that person has tacit permission to remain silent for the rest of the session.

The first time you attempt a retrospective that goes beyond asking "What went well?" and "What should we do differently?" it will take time to prepare.

Group dynamics include team member interactions and emotions. You aren't responsible for other people's emotions, but as retrospective leader, you are responsible for keeping the session productive. And that means you need to be prepared to handle emotional interactions and situations.

I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.

But even non-tragic plots become genuine events only when they are experienced a second time in the form of suffering by memory operating retrospectively and perceptively.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? … The sun shines today also … There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

If we are going to ban players for alleged dives, its time there was a panel of ex-managers and players who put blundering referees on trial - and absolute howlers should be punished with a ban, the same as retrospective action against players.

A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.

El amor tiende a hacer una leyenda de sí mismo y a mitificar retrospectivamente sus comienzos.

People talk about, 'Well, why don't they bring 'Growing Pains' back?' No, it belongs in the time capsule exactly where it was. It would probably look corny and dated if they tried to redo that. But I think, for its time, it was meaningful.

En retrospectiva, todos somos unos genios, pero el riesgo siempre implica mirar hacia el futuro, no hacia el pasado.

Fueron exactamente diecinueve arañazos y doce dentelladas. ¿Que cómo lo sé? Feliz pregunta, lector sagaz, al filo de abandonarte de nuevo en los tiempos modernos, después de este paréntesis retrospectivo. Lo sé porque fui yo. Yo fui quien la atacó. Dicho esto, regreso a mi aparente silencio. Te estaré observando.

that the Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, and retrospective explainability. Let

But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.

He dicho que el Cisne Negro tiene tres atributos: la impredecibilidad, las consecuencias y la explicabilidad retrospectiva. Examinemos eso de la impredecibilidad.*

By the mechanism of retrospective determinism we will find the "cause"—actually

the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality);

Why did Communism collapse so precipitously in 1989? We should not indulge the sirens of retrospective determinism, however seductive. Even if Communism was doomed by its inherent absurdities, few predicted the timing and the manner of its going.