Retrospect Quotes - Page 2

I really tend to write in retrospect.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.

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

Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.