“ In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them! Avijeet Das
“ I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. Carroll Bryant
“ One must judiciously retrospect not just his actions but also reactions of the other in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion. The primary fallacy is that you're assuming that the other is function… Ramana Pemmaraju
“ Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . Michael M. Lewis
“ I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. Virginia Euwer Wolff
“ 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… Vladimir Nabokov
“ 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 exp… Jay Rayner
“ Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run.... I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent event… Kazuo Ishiguro
“ There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to reg… Criss Jami
“ Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. This has been the case with me. Connections sl… Eudora Welty
“ ...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made… Felix J. Palma
“ 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
“ The Naga laughed softly, 'There's a thin line that separates courage from stupidity.''And that line is only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I… Amish Tripathi
“ It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact. Lorii Myers
