A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve.” — Ben Linders Copy Share Image
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
“A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes… — Wogu Donald Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God… — Harvey J. Kaye Copy Share Image
“What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“A retrospective’s huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.” — Luis Gonçalves Copy Share Image
“I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it. — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
“Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.” — Ben Linders Copy Share Image
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Everybody becomes wise when the moment is gone. Retrospective wisdom is worthless. When you are picking on something, at that very moment… — Osho Copy Share Image
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