Top 24 Retrospection Quotes
#1. I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
Jenna Fischer
#2. The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#3. You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.
T.F. Hodge
#4. That's more interesting than a two-headed calf singing "Some Velvet Morning" in tight harmony.
Richard Kadrey
#5. As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Sara Sheridan
#7. Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.
Gregory David Roberts
#9. A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
Fred Brooks
#10. The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
Aaron Wildavsky
#11. Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.
Zora Neale Hurston
#12. Thanks to the humidity, my hair felt like it had tripled in size. I could feel it
trying to devour my sunglasses like some sort of carnivorous jungle plant.
Rachel Hawkins
#13. If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.
Ryan Gosling
#14. This was in the white of the year,
That was in the green,
Drifts were as difficult then to think
As daisies now to be seen.
Looking back is best that is left,
Or if it be before,
Retrospection is prospect's half,
Sometimes almost more.
Emily Dickinson
#16. We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
Sue Monk Kidd
#17. We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#18. When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.
Lynne Tillman
#19. The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Susan Stewart
#20. All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig
#21. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.
Charles Dickens
#23. If you ask yourself 'What's the best thing that happened today?' It actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn't otherwise think about.
Austin Kleon
#24. My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
Diana Quick
