Retrospectively Vs Prospectively Quotes & Sayings

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool. — Gautama Buddha

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. — Aubrey O'Day

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree. — David Bezmozgis

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. — Kate DiCamillo

With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. "Who knew that one day I'd be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?"
He scowls. "Infinite Gray was not a boy band."
"Were there any girls in the band?"
"No."
"That makes you a boy band."
"It made us an all-male rock group."
I bite back my smile. He's so cute when he's irritated. "Right, like 'N Sync."
He winces. "Not like 'N Sync. Jesus, watch where you hurl those things. Words hurt, Maggie. — Lexi Ryan

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them. — Marcus Aurelius

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours. — Nora Roberts

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities. — Elena Ferrante

Animals don't get enough credit for all they're capable of emotionally. — Jennifer S. Holland

It's not about the way you look
It's not about your face
It's all about the way you think
It's all about your grace
You're love is like a power chase
You're like an oak tree growing in a flower vase — Mac Lethal

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance. — Alan Parsons

Common sense ... has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover. — Russell L. Ackoff

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time. — Joseph Roth

But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb