Quotes About Hindsight

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Looked at with the benefit of hindsight, his life, which at time had felt like a series of ingenious escapes, resembled rather more closely a succession of nooses, most of them self-tied. The self-tied ones will still hang you, though.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

Telling it all after the fact...easier said than done!...much easier!

As anyone who has ever started with a high concept and then worked backward to find numbers to fit the theory knows, it is not unusual for the theory to make a lot of sense "in hindsight.

Markopolos sees his mistake now, with the benefit of over a decade of hindsight. But in the midst of things, the same brilliant mind that was capable of unraveling Madoff's deceptions was incapable of getting people in positions of responsibility to take him seriously. That's the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don't begin in a state of trust, you can't have meaningful social encounters.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

You only come to know these things in hindsight Ã¢â'¬â€œ when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting which idea will make a difference and which will die on the vine.

You only come to know these things in hindsight Ã¢â'¬â€œ when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting which idea will make a difference and which will die on the vine. That's why you record them all. No matter how random, how small, how half-baked, how unfinished it may be; if you have a thought, record it right away.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

It occurred to him, not for the first time, that prophetic dreams were not much use if their meaning emerged only in hindsight.

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.