“So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection”
Anais Nin
“In retrospect, I see nothing that we did that was inappropriate in terms of policy,”
Alan Greenspan
“Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.”
Woody Allen
“I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength of the housing market throughout the year was surprising.”
Carl Brown
“In retrospect, if we'd have done that it might have helped.”
Nate Salant
“The first retrospective was held in Berlin in the mid-1990s. His centennial was 2002: There were a bunch of them around the world.”
Catherine Wyler
