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title: "7 Retrospectively Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Retrospectively quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Retrospectively sayings and thoughts."
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> [I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cillian-murphy/i-try-not-to-think-retrospectively-it-s-important-as-an-artist-to/)

[Cillian Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cillian-murphy/)

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> [Looking at myself retrospectively, how I survived, how I was reactionary as my surroundings were ever changing and I didn't have time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-fox/looking-at-myself-retrospectively-how-i-survived-how-i-was/)

[Julia Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-fox/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/julia-fox-7915_choices_looking-at-myself-retrospectively-how-i_462116.jpg)

> [“But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/but-the-technology-is-only-trivial-retrospectively-not-prospectively/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/stories-as-much-as-we-like-to-talk-about-them-retrospectively-as/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-nicholson/when-you-look-at-life-retrospectively-you-rarely-regret-anything-that/)

[Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-nicholson/)

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> [“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-waugh/it-is-easy-retrospectively-to-endow-one-s-youth-with-a-false/)

[Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-waugh/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/evelyn-waugh-850_doors_it-is-easy-retrospectively-to-endow-one_2245419.png)

> [“Weick, we can only make sense of life retrospectively, even though it must be lived prospectively.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-fuda/weick-we-can-only-make-sense-of-life-retrospectively-even-though-it/)

[Peter Fuda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-fuda/)

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