Hindsight Quotes - Page 7

• Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Awful, Figures

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.

  Luke Evans

  Gay, Maturity, Media

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• I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave.

  Dara Wier

  Mean, Thinking, Games

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• Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Should Have, Games, Annoyed

  "O'Sullivan faces censure after walking out on Hendry match" by Clive Everton, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

  Bret Stephens

  Benefits, Super Bowl, Equity

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

  Kenneth Cole

  Egypt, Issues, Serious

  "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

  Lucy Lawless

  Play, Deception, Watches

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

  Tiger Woods

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2002.

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• We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

  John Whisenant

  Rejection, Shooting, Assistants

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• Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

  Maureen Howard

  Potatoes, Common, Bland

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• It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

  Megyn Kelly

  Reality, Men, Should Have

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

  Diane F. Halpern

  Memories, Mistake, Decision

  Diane F. Halpern (2002). “Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, 4th Edition”, p.340, Routledge

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