#retrospective

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

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#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

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

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#cultivation #enemy #forgotten #greatest #high

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

— George Crumb

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#gesture #glance #make #relatively #retrospective