No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!
In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
