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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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• 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 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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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Understanding, Events, Astonishment

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• Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

  Jerome Groopman

  Sports, Pain, Frustration

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Richard'm Nixon

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• From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Sadness, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• hindsight is not a strategy.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Planning, Strategy

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• For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Drama, Independent, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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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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