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• Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Surprise, Bias

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• Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.

  Tom Szaky

  Business, Mistake, Knowing

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• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Together, Family Values

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• hindsight is gained through experience

  Ellen Hopkins

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• We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

  Charlie Cox

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

  Marco Rubio

  Decision, President, Benefits

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

  John Adams

  August, Political, Politics

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• hindsight is not a strategy.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Planning, Strategy

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• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  Harlan Coben

  Encouragement, Book, Writing

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• With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural cycle; we're in a similar time of upheaval now in the sense that the nation is divided upon itself, and some of the present schisms appear both terrifying and permanent. It's true that unless we learn from the past, we're condemned to repeat it.

  Jeff Guinn

  Past, Confusion, Moral

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play

  Trevor Bailey

  Play, World, Captains

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• A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Moments, Disruption, Conversation

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• Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Richard'm Nixon

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• Probably the most difficult scene to film was the one where I'm attacked. I haven't thought about it in a while because, in hindsight, you make jokes about it and you get funny stories from it. When I was talking about it earlier today, I started to realize that it took a couple days probably to get over. Even if you can laugh about it, it's still the physical things that your body has to go through, it's pretty insane.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Couple, Laughing, Insane

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that any sort of hindsight, especially in this wrestling industry, is a waste of time, and time is extremely valuable. I don't control that. People ask me to do something, and it is our job, as entertainers, to do the best that we can to accomplish that goal. What I get upset about in this business is that so many people talk about the "what if," instead of the "what is." The "what is" is more important. If someone were to go back 15 years and say, "You should have done this," it's too late. I was told to do "X," and I was trying to do "X" the best way that I could.

  John Cena

  Wrestling, Thinking, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Differences, Criticism, Guessing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

  Jim Beaver

  Book, Writing, Space

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• It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I would have done is turn authority back over to Iraqis much more quickly and say: "Your country, you figure out how to run it."

  John Bolton

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

  Leo Gordon

  Leadership, Perfect, Brain

  "Fictional character: Major Craig". "Tobruk", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

  Tom Felton

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Past, Games, Play

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• In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

  Michael Hyatt

  Running, Art, Father

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Class, Textbooks

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Wise, Feelings, Risk

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

  Paul Burrell

  Letters, Benefits, Bothered

  Paul Burrell (2003). “A royal duty”

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