Definition of Retrospect

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Definition of Retrospect
	Retrospect To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Related Definitions: Affect, Back, Backward, Concern, Contemplation, Hence, Is, Look, Looking, Of, On, Or, Past, The, To, View, What

Retrospect Quotations

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
Don Henley

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.
Jonathan Carroll

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
Mike Figgis

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

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.
John Hersey

Retrospect Translations

retrospect in Spanish is recordar

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