20 20 Hindsight Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

Damon Lindelof

#4. That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

Doug Stanhope

#6. Everything seems obvious in hindsight!

Fredrik Backman

#7. The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

John Piper

#8. I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

Sarah Chalke

#9. The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

Steve-O

#10. Hindsight is not 20-20. Not even close. Our view of the past, in fact, is hardly clearer than our view of the future.

Ed Catmull

#11. That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair?
Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.

Peter Kreeft

#12. I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.

Cristina Henriquez

#13. Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

Sam Huntington

#15. Hindsight is 20-20.

Ed Catmull

#16. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

Benjamin Graham

#17. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.

Eleanor Catton