Russell Brand

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

English Comedian

George Saunders

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

American Writer

Hugh Laurie

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

British Actor

Guy Gavriel Kay

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.

Canadian Author

David Moyes

I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.

Scottish Coach

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Egyptian Public Servant

Gary Bettman

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

American Businessman

Robert Peel

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

English Leader

Robert Menzies

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Australian Statesman

Morgan Saylor

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

American Actress

Used when thinking about the past to understand the present or future.

Past Reflection

It often describes a meeting or process focusing on past performance.

Event Evaluation

Highlights specific events or periods from the past, not general history.

Past Events Focus

Refers to art exhibitions showcasing an individual's work over time.

Art Displays

In an artistic context, it may summarize an entire career of an artist.

Career Overview

Indicates a thorough and complete exhibition of works, not just highlights.

Comprehensive Exhibit

Laws or decisions applied retrospectively affect actions taken in the past.

Past Law Impact

Retrospective application of laws can be controversial or feel unfair.

Legal Controversy

It is crucial to understand the effective date when a policy is retrospective.

Effective Date Clarity

 and then they tried to retrospectively change the law so that it would no longer apply to them. The transparency law they'd passed earlier that applied to everybody else, they tried to keep it so it didn't apply to them. What they hadn't counted on was digitization, because that meant that all those paper receipts

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 as the earliest example that they can find based on symptoms and based on retroactive diagnosis for a COVID-19 case. So in effect, there were several weeks before the acknowledgment to the World Health Organization that that was going on,

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 gets a little complicated because it's exemplified in the story of my labor and birth how we feel time passing in the moment is different from how we retrospectively remember time and the interesting finding is that our

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 and placed a ban on felling. A retrospective on 40 years shows that if we had accounted for these costs -- the cost of loss of topsoil, the cost of loss of waterways, the lost productivity, the loss to local communities

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 on a retrospective of painter Elizabeth Murray. I learned so much from her. After the curator Robert Storr selected all the paintings from her lifetime body of work, I loved looking at the paintings from the 1970s.

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 I didn't think, I didn't even put it in retrospective or just, I, Girl, you know, I didn't think nothin' about it. You have shown a lotta courage, you help a lotta people, you nurture people and I think