Quotes About Hindsight

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

Sometimes our fates take turns that we don't notice in the moment they occur, but if you live as long as I have they become clear in hindsight.

Sometimes our fates take turns that we don't notice in the moment they occur, but if you live as long as I have they become clear in hindsight. At each crossroads or fork we must decide which direction to take. These decisions may determine the course of the rest of our lives.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

I did a TV show called 'Lenny Henry Dot TV' a couple of years ago and I hated it. These things always happen when you don't have time to reflect. And I didn't do anything on the telly for three years.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

Now of course in hindsight, such a wonderful thing, though never around when you actually need it, I know that I always loved her deeply.

Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was—or is.

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);

Hindsight has a way of corrupting people's memories, inviting them to view a past event not as it actually occurred but as they wished it had occurred given the ultimate result.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

It's always easy to be wise after the event.

To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone's being gone, and forever. You must survive the sorrow.

To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone's being gone, and forever. You must survive the sorrow.

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.