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Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.
In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.
Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.
In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.
Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.
'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt during their engagement.
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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.
'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.
What I didn't realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.
Maybe in hindsight the move to Sauber - not to disregard that year - but maybe if I'd stayed at Force India, that could have been a change to my career.
Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.
I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.
With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.
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.'
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.
To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
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.
Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?
I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented about the bailouts of the banks in the West.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.