Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
Michael LewisTag: obvious retrospect
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
Milan KunderaTag: understanding revelation retrospect
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: past thought retrospect unbelievable
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SophoclesTag: hindsight retrospect
It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.
Lorii MyersTag: friendship life-lessons retrospect
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Criss JamiTag: motivational inspirational power purpose inspiration time despair ambition hope recovery retrospect encouraging despair-hope facet outweigh phases
Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.
“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)
Tag: food time grace taste wine moment pockets mess lives retrospect meal splash floor identify tablecloth debris plate cutlery absorbed apron courses crucial-points deafening-moments linen main-event sauce starters waiters wine-glass
I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.
Carroll BryantTag: life life-philosophy philosphy philisophical retrospect life_universe_everything philisophical-life
I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
Virginia Euwer WolffTag: books change young-adult retrospect
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss JamiTag: learning mistakes genius understanding hindsight revelation discovery development regrets empiricism retrospect wrongness correctness
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