Top Retrospect Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Retrospect quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Guillermo del Toro
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of James Blish
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
- James Blish
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Image of C. V. Wedgwood
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
- C. V. Wedgwood
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Image of Paul Kingsnorth
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
- Paul Kingsnorth
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Image of Michael McFaul
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.
- Michael McFaul
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Image of Andy Richter
My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.
- Andy Richter
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Image of William Bolcom
I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
- William Bolcom
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Image of Caroline Pratt
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
- Caroline Pratt
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Image of Cheryl Strayed
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.
- Cheryl Strayed
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Image of Haruki Murakami
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Kate Morton
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
- Kate Morton
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Image of Tana French
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
- Tana French
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