Retrospect Quotes

134 Retrospect quotes by 119 unique authors

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path. — Emily Saliers
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture… — C. V. Wedgwood
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Unknown Author
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see… — Mike Figgis
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. — Jessica Livingston
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt
He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed… — Manny Laureano
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed… — George Friedman
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only… — Cheryl Strayed
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will… — Evelyn Underhill
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series… — Richard Holbrooke
I really tend to write in retrospect. — Randy Houser
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go… — Paul Dirac
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
Perspective will come in retrospect. — Melody Beattie
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world… — Ina Garten
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly… — Phillip Lopate
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our… — Learned Hand
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. — Alan Greenspan
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time. — Kate Morton
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I… — Randall Munroe
You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if… — Holly Madison
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long… — Henri Nouwen
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white… — Gerhard Richter

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