Quotes About Hindsight

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

Vlad always told me that woulda-shoulda-coulda is a sucker's game.

Hindsight is always 20/20, foresight rarely better than a blur

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

What looks attractive in prospect doesn't always look so good in practice.

But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

Hell is truth seen too late.

There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.

If we adjudicate an operator's understanding of an unfolding situation against our own truth, which includes knowledge of hindsight, we may learn little of value about why people saw what they did, and why taking or not taking action made sense to them.

There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact."1

There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.

We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.