Quotations on Hindsight

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The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
- Gerry Cooney
(Keywords: Thought, Mistake, Fight, Hindsight, Press)

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
- Ken Follett
(Keywords: Chance, Hindsight, World)

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.
- Louis Freeh
(Keywords: Intelligence, Time, Fire, Hindsight, Information, Trying, Water)

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
- Vince Gill
(Keywords: Mistake, Successful, Exercise, Hindsight, Now, Years)

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
- Larry Niven
(Keywords: Society, Hindsight, May, Will)

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Keywords: Truth, Hindsight, Testing)

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
- Robert Teeter
(Keywords: Leadership, Perception, Hindsight, Style)