Hindsight
noun
Understanding of a situation or event after it has happened.
In hindsight, I should have prepared more for the interview
Often appears as...
- in hindsight
- with the benefit of hindsight
noun
Understanding of a situation or event after it has happened.
In hindsight, I should have prepared more for the interview
Often appears as...
- in hindsight
- with the benefit of hindsight
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Pro Tip 1/3Post-Event Insight
Hindsight illustrates an understanding gained after an event has occurred, not during or before.
We realized in hindsight that the clues were obvious.
Pro Tip 2/3Regretful Tone
Often used to express regret or acknowledge a mistake could have been avoided.
In hindsight, skipping the rehearsals was a bad idea.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Reflection
Indicates personal reflection, especially when re-evaluating past choices or actions.
She realized in hindsight that she should have taken the job offer.
Pro Tip 1/3Post-Event Insight
Hindsight illustrates an understanding gained after an event has occurred, not during or before.
We realized in hindsight that the clues were obvious.
Pro Tip 2/3Regretful Tone
Often used to express regret or acknowledge a mistake could have been avoided.
In hindsight, skipping the rehearsals was a bad idea.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Reflection
Indicates personal reflection, especially when re-evaluating past choices or actions.
She realized in hindsight that she should have taken the job offer.
Pro Tip 1/3Post-Event Insight
Hindsight illustrates an understanding gained after an event has occurred, not during or before.
We realized in hindsight that the clues were obvious.
Pro Tip 2/3Regretful Tone
Often used to express regret or acknowledge a mistake could have been avoided.
In hindsight, skipping the rehearsals was a bad idea.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Reflection
Indicates personal reflection, especially when re-evaluating past choices or actions.
She realized in hindsight that she should have taken the job offer.
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How to use data to make...
I'll have it out later for tech demos. Now, the thing is, of course -- so I've made some decisions in my life where, in hindsight, I should have just listened to the ball. But, you know, of course, if you have the data available, you want to replace this with something much more sophisticated, like data analysis to come to a better decision.
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What will future jobs...
is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer,
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...
meant it but also that's a book for adults and i'm afraid that you won't enjoy it and so that was that was like the way that she handled like and in hindsight i should ask her about this but in hindsight maybe that was her way of being like i can't afford that right now but i'm not i don't want to
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First Look: The Long...
happened so quickly and instinctively that their true impact could only be revealed in hindsight. What has emerged, looking back all these years later, is a portrait not just of courage and sacrifice, but one of family... You doing all right? not just at home and on the front lines,
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How working couples can...
Just keep an open conversation going about how able each of you feel to shape decisions that affect you both. How will you know you've chosen well? One common misunderstanding is that you can only know what choice is right in hindsight. And maybe it's true we judge life backwards,
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Zahra Al-Mahdi: The...
read and reread. A change of context, change of perspective in hindsight can assign different values to everything and everyone around us. The way I see it, that's where artists are most important. To present metadocumentations of our history, to give villains their origin story.
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On the Road With Andrew...
women very attractive noises great and there you go you know and then but at no time did I feel like I was sort of in charge of my life or my decisions you know I was just sort of along for the ride in a certain way and in hindsight
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Criminal Scapegoat PIPE...
mine this is not right in hindsight if I'd known that I would have lost theirs my family lose so much more I've given everything I had without any qualms have no idea that the whole world was going to be turned upside down
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A glimpse of teenage...
Back at Lucius' house, the drinking continues into the night. Lucius and his stepbrother don't look too well. A slave stands by in case either of them needs to vomit. With hindsight, we know Lucius' future.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
You know, from the hindsight of history, what's always most inexplicable and inexcusable are the simple failures of compassion.
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How to use data to make...
I'll have it out later for tech demos. Now, the thing is, of course -- so I've made some decisions in my life where, in hindsight, I should have just listened to the ball. But, you know, of course, if you have the data available, you want to replace this with something much more sophisticated, like data analysis to come to a better decision.
Video examples
What will future jobs...
is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer,
Video examples
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...
meant it but also that's a book for adults and i'm afraid that you won't enjoy it and so that was that was like the way that she handled like and in hindsight i should ask her about this but in hindsight maybe that was her way of being like i can't afford that right now but i'm not i don't want to
Video examples
First Look: The Long...
happened so quickly and instinctively that their true impact could only be revealed in hindsight. What has emerged, looking back all these years later, is a portrait not just of courage and sacrifice, but one of family... You doing all right? not just at home and on the front lines,
Video examples
How working couples can...
Just keep an open conversation going about how able each of you feel to shape decisions that affect you both. How will you know you've chosen well? One common misunderstanding is that you can only know what choice is right in hindsight. And maybe it's true we judge life backwards,
Video examples
Zahra Al-Mahdi: The...
read and reread. A change of context, change of perspective in hindsight can assign different values to everything and everyone around us. The way I see it, that's where artists are most important. To present metadocumentations of our history, to give villains their origin story.
Video examples
On the Road With Andrew...
women very attractive noises great and there you go you know and then but at no time did I feel like I was sort of in charge of my life or my decisions you know I was just sort of along for the ride in a certain way and in hindsight
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Criminal Scapegoat PIPE...
mine this is not right in hindsight if I'd known that I would have lost theirs my family lose so much more I've given everything I had without any qualms have no idea that the whole world was going to be turned upside down
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A glimpse of teenage...
Back at Lucius' house, the drinking continues into the night. Lucius and his stepbrother don't look too well. A slave stands by in case either of them needs to vomit. With hindsight, we know Lucius' future.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
You know, from the hindsight of history, what's always most inexplicable and inexcusable are the simple failures of compassion.
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Jim Beaver
American Actor
Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.
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Queen Elizabeth II
English Royalty
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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Robert Teeter
American Politician
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.
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Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
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Julia Leigh
Australian Novelist
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.
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Tyra Banks
American Model
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.
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Jimmy Cliff
Jamaican Musician
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.
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Penn Jillette
American Entertainer
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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Kristin Bauer van Straten
American Actress
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
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Jim Beaver
American Actor
Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.
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Queen Elizabeth II
English Royalty
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Quote examples
Robert Teeter
American Politician
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.
Quote examples
Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
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Julia Leigh
Australian Novelist
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.
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Tyra Banks
American Model
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.
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Jimmy Cliff
Jamaican Musician
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.
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Penn Jillette
American Entertainer
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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Kristin Bauer van Straten
American Actress
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
Example 1 of 10
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