It really is strange the way I work for success but when I get there cannot appreciate it. I enjoy the road to success and the struggle even when it gets hard. But when I achieve my goal, I feel suddenly and totally stressed. Only in retrospect can I begin to enjoy the moment and admit just how great it was.
Sarah Brightman
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"
Julie Andrews
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect
Robert Louis Stevenson
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Gloria Steinem
She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as notes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
James Benjamin Blish