Retrospect Quotes - Page 9

• Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Stories, Current Events

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• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Together, Sound

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

  Dave Van Ronk

  Thinking, Laughing, Add

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• Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  Thinking, Shame, Moments

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• In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

  Jeff Sessions

  Storm, Enough, Before The Storm

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• Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

  Ted Olson

  Mind, Barbara, Wells

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• The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

  Charles Mackay

  Wise, Past, Men

  Charles MacKay (2011). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds”, p.534, BookBaby

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• In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.

  Gillian Anderson

  Dark, Past, Thinking

  "Straightheads - Gillian Anderson interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Void, Impossible, Moments

  Source: deadline.com

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• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Powerful, Smart, Expectations

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• Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Perspective, Events, Add

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