{"quotes":[{"text":"What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["avail","beginning","discovery","freedom","hindsight","particular","patterns","right","stories","writing","wrong"],"id":15309,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday and wrong the day beforeAnd each mistake leads back to something worseAnd every nuance of your hypocrisyTowards yourself, and every excuseStands solidly on the perspective linesAnd there is perfect visibility.What an enlightenment. The colonnadeRolls past on either side. You needn't move.The statues of your errors brush your sleeve.You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed.And this dismay at this, this big mistakeIs made worse by the sight of all those whoKnew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis. ","author":"James Fenton","tags":["acceptance","hindsight","mistakes"],"id":19946,"author_id":"James+Fenton"},{"text":"It is easy to be wise after the event.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["hindsight","true","wisdom"],"id":36553,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Retrospect: the sweetener of life.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["afterthought","hindsight","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","quote","recollection","remember","reminisce","retrospect","retrospection","sweetener"],"id":46316,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.","author":"Kristin Bauer van Straten","tags":["wise","people","hindsight "],"id":61417,"author_id":"Kristin+Bauer+van+Straten"},{"text":"The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["hindsight","mistakes","perspective","wisdom"],"id":68474,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... And try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden.","author":"R.A. Salvatore","tags":["hindsight","hope","regret"],"id":76214,"author_id":"R.A.+Salvatore"},{"text":"I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.","author":"Ansel Adams","tags":["hindsight","life","logic","sequence"],"id":77309,"author_id":"Ansel+Adams"},{"text":"In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["hindsight","important","past","turning-points","wistful"],"id":78778,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["foresight-insight","goal-setting","hindsight","success","success-self-improvement","vision","visonary","visualization","winning"],"id":79365,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}