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Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

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.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

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.

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.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

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.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

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.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.