#retrospect

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#decided #exhibition #i #major #only

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6) ↗

— Jay Rayner

#apron #courses #crucial-points #cutlery #deafening-moments

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. ↗

— David Baker

#ego #i #music #rather #realize

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

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. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#change #consideration #courage #forget #just

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#retrospect #revolutions #see #something #you

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#album #course #forced #great #know