35 Quotes About Retrospect

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Procedures/routines emerges to guard us from failures/difficulties, retrospect their presence on a timely basis, because the roles get reversed in the long-term, Instead of being guarded, we become the guard.

The regrettable fact of our reality is that life is always lived in the retrospect. We never know what is to come, and most of us haven’t learned how to live in the now. As such, all we have is the past.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.

[On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, "Oh poetic me," but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else.

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.