#hindsight

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ↗

— David Beckham

#thing #wonderful #wonderful thing

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.' ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#different #done #facing #go #had

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#benefit #does #easy #hindsight #his

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humor #irony #shakespeare #humor

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee. ↗

— Ted Yoho

#cliff #coming #committee #did #hindsight

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. ↗

— Ken Follett

#domination #had #hindsight #know #never

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#dots #drink #fire #great #hindsight

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#life

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#history-of-mankind #reflection #age

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.         To date, I had made three. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #danger #eric-bradburry #hindsight #hybrid-vampires