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

  Adam Brody

  Captivating, Realising, Enjoyed

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• People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Wise, People, Kind

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• Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

  Roland Gift

  Regret, Decision

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• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Allies, Events

  Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins

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• Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

  Kevin Kline

  Inspirational, Foresight

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• 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

  Emotional, Forever, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

  Skylar Grey

  Writing, Past

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Jobs, Nice, Successful

  "'Murphy Brown' interview". Interview with Alan Carter, ew.com. May 15, 1992.

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• Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

  Grace Paley

  Doe, Facts, Valuable

  Grace Paley (2017). “A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry”, p.158, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Guessing, Strategy, Second Guessing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• In hindsight everything is much clearer.

  Bart Cummings

  Sports, Inspirational Sports

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• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  William Blake

  Pain, Saving, Wonderful

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• The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

  Clive James

  Inevitable, Belittle, Foresight

  Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Damon Lindelof

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  "The Lost Creators Come Clean". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. May 7, 2014.

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• From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage under fire and persistence in the face of obstacles. Yet even he at times doubted himself. But he put those doubts aside and forged ahead, convinced of his noble purpose.

  John Baldoni

  Persistence, Greatness, Men

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• Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

  Paul Samuelson

  Two, Century, Innuendo

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• It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Real, Men

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• There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

  Meghan Daum

  Forgiving, Asking, Sin

  "On False Sentimentality, Womanhood, and Getting with the Program: A Conversation with Meghan Daum". Work in Progress interview, fsgworkinprogress.com.

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• Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Reflection, Decision, Information

  Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.905, Penguin

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• Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Creative, Able

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• Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

  David Zindell

  Wise

  "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Ocean, Years, Sea

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

  Andrew Lincoln

  Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Foresight

  "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.

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• As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

  Greg Laurie

  Encouragement, Prayer, Thank God

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