Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians."
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Hindsight
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Robin Sharma
Author, Speaker
"The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight."
S.J. Watson
Author
"It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are."
Bart Cummings
Horse Trainer
"In hindsight everything is much clearer."
Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself."
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"Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it."
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"In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks."
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"Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish."
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"I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time."
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"hindsight is not a strategy."
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"The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight."
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"Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight."
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"Hindsight provides new eyes."
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