Wayne Newton
Singer
"Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen."
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Retrospect
80 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
Jonathan Carroll
Author
"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late."
Michael Lewis
Author, Journalist
"Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . ."
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"Often a retrospect delights the mind."
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"In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful."
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"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 in retrospect that we know which is which."
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"Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books."
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"There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions."
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"...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances."
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"Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect."
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