Hindsight Quotes - Page 5

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Richard'm Nixon

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• hindsight is not a strategy.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Planning, Strategy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.

  Damian Barr

  Cutting, Unity, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

  Zachary Lazar

  Writing, Self, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Past, Historical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

  Kevin Bleyer

  Art, Mind, Television

  "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.

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• I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

  Eugene Mirman

  Nice, School, Massachusetts

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• The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was right around the time I was giving up on a doomed, never-to-be-seen first novel. While I saw it could be something bigger, in hindsight fortuitous timing was as responsible as anything.

  Anthony Marra

  Giving Up, Russia, Saws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, "I would have done that a little different" because hindsight is 20/20.

  Sam Huntington

  Careers, Different, Would Be

  "Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview DYLAN DOG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 27, 2011.

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• Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Play, Mind, Tricks

  Jeremy J. Siegel (1994). “Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth”, Irwin Professional Publishing

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• Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

  Vince Gill

  Mistake, Successful, Exercise

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• I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Yarn, Long

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in The Leopard, in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. Phantom has less blood.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Regret, Blood

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Regret, Believe, Moving

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• Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Memories, Sadness

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Who Cares, Useless, Tomorrow

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God would not let us settle for our well-intentioned but limited desires, but called us- sometimes weeping and kicking- to something more enduring and satisfying.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Regret, Ideas, Desire

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• I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

  Ratan Tata

  Taken, Thinking, People

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