#retrospect

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

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

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#been #happen #i #making #most

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

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. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#revelation #understanding #love