#retrospect

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

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

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#cultivation #enemy #forgotten #greatest #high

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. ↗

— George Crumb

#gesture #glance #make #relatively #retrospective

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #anxious #destructive #done #everything

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#around #before #enough #failures #go

The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#retrospect #life

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. ↗

— Criss Jami

#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ↗

— Robert Frost

#books #i #i am #learn #order