“When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.”
![“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.[31] Without at least imagining the missing dimensions to the stories, our view of how to make things happen in the present is…” quote by Scott Berkun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07f/scott-berkun-12409_failure_history-can-t-give-attention-to-what-s-b_625395.jpg)
![“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't…” quote by James Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/589/james-robertson-30882_another-time_m-ost-people-go-through-life-a-wee-bit-d_1305165.jpg)
