Hindsight Quotes

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth II

Sympathy, Past, Deep

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
Norman Schwarzkopf

Today, Help, Done

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Made, Wrong, Decisions

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
Kristin Bauer van Straten

Jealousy, Wise, Maybe

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Work, Time, Movies

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.
Ben Gibbard

Life, Time, Reality

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Robert M. Pirsig

Good, Best, Truth

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
Helen Reddy

After, Wonderful, Easy

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
David Beckham

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben

Saying, Book, Writing

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya Lin

Realize, Childhood, Indeed

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven

Society, May, Seem

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
Jane Pauley

Work, Gardening, Moment

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
Kate Bosworth

Time, Great, Pretty

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull

Different, Free, Once

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
Robert Teeter

Leadership, Important, Again

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.
Jo Nesbo

Regret, Wish, Chance

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
Reed Hastings

Success, Past, Arrogance

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.
Michael Fassbender

Wanted, Maybe, Four

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
Vince Gill

Successful, Made, Two

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody

Movies, Enjoyed, Realise

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
Ken Follett

Chance, Union, Domination

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
Julia Leigh

Time, Truth, Question

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Helen Fielding

Time, Books, Novel

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney

Bad, Fight, Him

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Henry Flynt

Made, Serious, Against

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
Steven Levitan

Liar, Him, Once

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
Erik Larson

Power, Living, Darkness

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
Andrew Lincoln

Time, Find, Getting

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Susan B. Anthony

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us