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Yeah, I should have done this and I should have done that, but in hindsight you’re always smarter. I’ve done what I’ve done, I’ve paid my dues and I ’m ready for a comeback. – Boris Becker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of our commentators were endorsing it,, i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight. – Rupert Murdoch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The impacted employees were identified on February 3, 2023, which was well before the union campaign was announced, we became aware of organizing activities approximately 10 days later. We learned in hindsight that one out of the 27 impacted employees [was] officially identified as part of the union campaign. This exercise pre-dated any union campaign. – Elon Musk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable. – Raymond Zar	added by rz_1 1 year ago
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers also spoke at length about inflation and made a lengthy argument that turned out to be... not so good in hindsight, the mistakes are always glaring in hindsight. – Kenneth Kuttner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period. – Public Safety Director Steven McCraw	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period. There's no excuse for that. – Steven McCraw	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In hindsight, it would have been better to raise rates earlier. – Jerome Powell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The connection of the cooling loop helps explain other activities seen at the 50MW( e) reactor in recent years, connecting the secondary cooling loop suggests, in hindsight, that the demolition of the apparent spent-fuel building was an early sign that North Korea intends to complete construction of the reactor. – Jeffrey Lewis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But also in hindsight, the medicine( fiscal spending and QE) was probably too much and lasted too long. – United States	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways, the pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. … I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion. – Tom Hardy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would also say, we knew that this storm was coming, we put warnings out. Why don’t you start asking some of these individuals that were out on the highway for hours one, did you know about this storm, two, why did you feel it was so important to drive through such a snow storm, and three, in hindsight, do you think maybe you should have stayed home or wherever you were rather than getting out on Interstate 95? I think that would be interesting, to hear that side of it. – Ralph Northam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would also say, Matt, we knew that this storm was coming. We put warnings out. Why don’t you start asking some of these individuals that were out on the highway for hours one, did you know about this storm, two, why did you feel it was so important to drive through such a snow storm, and three, in hindsight, do you think maybe you should have stayed home or wherever you were rather than getting out on Interstate-95? I think that would be interesting, to hear that side of it. – Ralph Northam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The jury instructions were really centered around that term 'reasonable.' Defining the word 'reasonable.' And the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of Kyle Rittenhouse. Not Monday morning quarterback, not the jurors, or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he reasonably believe about the possibility of a lethal threat or harm and grave bodily harm? – Laura Coates	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Now they have an objective eyewitness, dispatch and Gabby herself saying that Brian hit her, why they didn’t take him into custody is mind-boggling. I understand that hindsight is 20/20, but this is an absolute failure to properly assess the moment and make a proper decision based upon the facts and the law. – Brett Tolman	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
(C)(P)-THE URGENCY OF NOW-SITUATION DICTATES THAT WE ACT WITH DUE DILIGENCE AND COMPETENCE TO GET AND ACHIEVE OUR FOCUSED OBJECTIVES. DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCES MAY ARISE FROM DIFFICULT DECISIONS MADE. HINDSIGHT MAY ALWAYS TRY TO VALIDATE FORESIGHT, BUT ONLY IF FORESIGHT WAS PREDICTABLE IN ITS OUTCOMES! – RAS CARDO REGGAE**	added by jahmantafari1 3 years ago
In hindsight, I wish that had not become law, but it is the law, and the only chance we have is either to amend it or for the courts to say that it has an unconstitutional foundation. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you look in hindsight, you could say, ‘Well, we could have used the money that we spent to rent Sleep Train and we could have put it back into the hospital system or we could have put it into procuring PPE (personal protective equipment) or any number of things,’ but these are lessons learned. – Stephanie Roberson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We now know in hindsight that it has nothing to do with us, it has nothing to do with our background or family. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP She said her father has tried to take his own life twice, after Iranian officials threatened to target his wife and children. In the U.S., Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the international community to condemn what he called. – Elika Ashoori	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Everyone lies. It's not a sad fact, I don't think. Barely even a fact at all. Just...a reality. Something that was always true and will always continue to be true. It's something we all accept, whether we want to admit it or not. We all lie. Every one of us. And it's not just a one-time thing either. It's constant. We do it over and over again. And why wouldn't we? Parents lie to their kids, teach them how to lie right back to them, breeding a new generation of people born into distortion, born into a world of deceit and falsehood disguised as reality. And what can you expect from them? Can you really expect them to turn out pure and innocent when they're constantly being fed their parents' inventions, their teachers' stories? They pick up on those things. I did, at least. Maybe it was just me, though. It's not something you grow out of. As you get older, you keep on lying. You lie about everything, to everyone, at one point or another. You lie about your career when your parents ask how happy you are staying in your dead-end office cubicle counting down the seconds until you can go home and start the cycle of monotony over again. You lie to your spouse promising you'll love them till the end of time, not realizing that sooner or later, that love will run out. And not just for them, for anyone and anything. It never lasts. Nothing does. You lie to strangers when they ask you what you believe, what you pray to, what you curse when things don't work out, spouting some scripted verse you learned as a child and stapled into your head, reciting lines you don't really understand to people you don't really care about, if only to convince yourself that you really do have a clue, that you aren't just flying blind in a sea of the unknown. And then there are the lies that stand out over all the others. The lies we tell ourselves. There's something different about them, something...bitter. Lies you tell to other people, they breeze in, announce themselves and then float right back out. They never linger in your head for longer than it took to talk to the person, discarding themselves as unimportant the second that person leaves your line of sight, never to be seen or thought of again. But the lies we tell ourselves, they don't leave. They don't breeze right back out. They linger, hover before your eyes, tracing over each and every detail until it's burned in your head, until you can recreate it over and over again with perfect precision, not a single word out of place, until that lie has completely overtaken you, washing away anything and everything until it is all that remains. Until it is nothing but the truth. Those lies are the most powerful...the most dangerous. Because unlike the lies we throw at others, the lies we tell ourselves are so much louder, so much brighter, so much more painful. When you can't live with what's in front of you, so you have to create something else, a new reality for you to live in and accept as truth. Because it is the truth. It's the truth you want. And at the end of the day...what else matters? Certainly not the little fib you woke up telling yourself. After all, what harm can come from one little lie? In hindsight, we both should have known it could never be that simple. – RayRox360	added by Multiverse-Goddess 3 years ago
For me, I think after every breakup, at some point I realize that there were a lot of things I ignored that I really shouldn't have, in hindsight, it felt like my hand was forced. I don't think it was ever an independent decision. – Chris Pratt	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think there was a premature sense of optimism among many that was probably unwarranted and in hindsight has ended up being quite deadly. – Health Minister Harsh Vardhan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In hindsight, had I known what I knew just a month later, I would have said ‘over my dead body’. It’s so incredibly tragic. – Jan Gluckman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I honestly think he did as good a job as he could have hindsight is always 2020. ... Personally, I don't think he did great, but I don't think he did bad. I think he did what he could. – Amanda Johnson	Found on CNN 4 years ago

Yeah, I should have done this and I should have done that, but in hindsight you’re always smarter. I’ve done what I’ve done, I’ve paid my dues and I ’m ready for a comeback.

– Boris Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of our commentators were endorsing it,, i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight.

– Rupert Murdoch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The impacted employees were identified on February 3, 2023, which was well before the union campaign was announced, we became aware of organizing activities approximately 10 days later. We learned in hindsight that one out of the 27 impacted employees [was] officially identified as part of the union campaign. This exercise pre-dated any union campaign.

– Elon Musk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

– Raymond Zar

added by rz_1
1 year ago

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers also spoke at length about inflation and made a lengthy argument that turned out to be... not so good in hindsight, the mistakes are always glaring in hindsight.

– Kenneth Kuttner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period.

– Public Safety Director Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period. There's no excuse for that.

– Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In hindsight, it would have been better to raise rates earlier.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The connection of the cooling loop helps explain other activities seen at the 50MW( e) reactor in recent years, connecting the secondary cooling loop suggests, in hindsight, that the demolition of the apparent spent-fuel building was an early sign that North Korea intends to complete construction of the reactor.

– Jeffrey Lewis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But also in hindsight, the medicine( fiscal spending and QE) was probably too much and lasted too long.

– United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways, the pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. … I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.

– Tom Hardy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would also say, we knew that this storm was coming, we put warnings out. Why don’t you start asking some of these individuals that were out on the highway for hours one, did you know about this storm, two, why did you feel it was so important to drive through such a snow storm, and three, in hindsight, do you think maybe you should have stayed home or wherever you were rather than getting out on Interstate 95? I think that would be interesting, to hear that side of it.

– Ralph Northam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would also say, Matt, we knew that this storm was coming. We put warnings out. Why don’t you start asking some of these individuals that were out on the highway for hours one, did you know about this storm, two, why did you feel it was so important to drive through such a snow storm, and three, in hindsight, do you think maybe you should have stayed home or wherever you were rather than getting out on Interstate-95? I think that would be interesting, to hear that side of it.

– Ralph Northam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The jury instructions were really centered around that term 'reasonable.' Defining the word 'reasonable.' And the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of Kyle Rittenhouse. Not Monday morning quarterback, not the jurors, or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he reasonably believe about the possibility of a lethal threat or harm and grave bodily harm?

– Laura Coates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Now they have an objective eyewitness, dispatch and Gabby herself saying that Brian hit her, why they didn’t take him into custody is mind-boggling. I understand that hindsight is 20/20, but this is an absolute failure to properly assess the moment and make a proper decision based upon the facts and the law.

– Brett Tolman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

**(C)(P)-THE URGENCY OF NOW-SITUATION DICTATES THAT WE ACT WITH DUE DILIGENCE AND COMPETENCE TO GET AND ACHIEVE OUR FOCUSED OBJECTIVES. DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCES MAY ARISE FROM DIFFICULT DECISIONS MADE. HINDSIGHT MAY ALWAYS TRY TO VALIDATE FORESIGHT, BUT ONLY IF FORESIGHT WAS PREDICTABLE IN ITS OUTCOMES!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
3 years ago

In hindsight, I wish that had not become law, but it is the law, and the only chance we have is either to amend it or for the courts to say that it has an unconstitutional foundation.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you look in hindsight, you could say, ‘Well, we could have used the money that we spent to rent Sleep Train and we could have put it back into the hospital system or we could have put it into procuring PPE (personal protective equipment) or any number of things,’ but these are lessons learned.

– Stephanie Roberson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We now know in hindsight that it has nothing to do with us, it has nothing to do with our background or family. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP She said her father has tried to take his own life twice, after Iranian officials threatened to target his wife and children. In the U.S., Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the international community to condemn what he called.

– Elika Ashoori

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Everyone lies. It's not a sad fact, I don't think. Barely even a fact at all. Just...a reality. Something that was always true and will always continue to be true. It's something we all accept, whether we want to admit it or not. We all lie. Every one of us. And it's not just a one-time thing either. It's constant. We do it over and over again. And why wouldn't we? Parents lie to their kids, teach them how to lie right back to them, breeding a new generation of people born into distortion, born into a world of deceit and falsehood disguised as reality. And what can you expect from them? Can you really expect them to turn out pure and innocent when they're constantly being fed their parents' inventions, their teachers' stories? They pick up on those things. I did, at least. Maybe it was just me, though. It's not something you grow out of. As you get older, you keep on lying. You lie about everything, to everyone, at one point or another. You lie about your career when your parents ask how happy you are staying in your dead-end office cubicle counting down the seconds until you can go home and start the cycle of monotony over again. You lie to your spouse promising you'll love them till the end of time, not realizing that sooner or later, that love will run out. And not just for them, for anyone and anything. It never lasts. Nothing does. You lie to strangers when they ask you what you believe, what you pray to, what you curse when things don't work out, spouting some scripted verse you learned as a child and stapled into your head, reciting lines you don't really understand to people you don't really care about, if only to convince yourself that you really do have a clue, that you aren't just flying blind in a sea of the unknown. And then there are the lies that stand out over all the others. The lies we tell ourselves. There's something different about them, something...bitter. Lies you tell to other people, they breeze in, announce themselves and then float right back out. They never linger in your head for longer than it took to talk to the person, discarding themselves as unimportant the second that person leaves your line of sight, never to be seen or thought of again. But the lies we tell ourselves, they don't leave. They don't breeze right back out. They linger, hover before your eyes, tracing over each and every detail until it's burned in your head, until you can recreate it over and over again with perfect precision, not a single word out of place, until that lie has completely overtaken you, washing away anything and everything until it is all that remains. Until it is nothing but the truth. Those lies are the most powerful...the most dangerous. Because unlike the lies we throw at others, the lies we tell ourselves are so much louder, so much brighter, so much more painful. When you can't live with what's in front of you, so you have to create something else, a new reality for you to live in and accept as truth. Because it is the truth. It's the truth you want. And at the end of the day...what else matters? Certainly not the little fib you woke up telling yourself. After all, what harm can come from one little lie? In hindsight, we both should have known it could never be that simple.

– RayRox360

added by Multiverse-Goddess
3 years ago

For me, I think after every breakup, at some point I realize that there were a lot of things I ignored that I really shouldn't have, in hindsight, it felt like my hand was forced. I don't think it was ever an independent decision.

– Chris Pratt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think there was a premature sense of optimism among many that was probably unwarranted and in hindsight has ended up being quite deadly.

– Health Minister Harsh Vardhan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In hindsight, had I known what I knew just a month later, I would have said ‘over my dead body’. It’s so incredibly tragic.

– Jan Gluckman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I honestly think he did as good a job as he could have hindsight is always 2020. ... Personally, I don't think he did great, but I don't think he did bad. I think he did what he could.

– Amanda Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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