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Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. -- David Ignatius
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective -- Tracey Emin
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. -- Tracey Emin
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work. -- Keith Shackleton
Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective. -- Daphne Guinness
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. -- George Crumb
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. -- Sara Sheridan
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. -- Anthony Browne
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. -- Robert Menzies
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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. -- Robert Peel
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. -- Christopher Hitchens
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. -- Richard Le Gallienne
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic. -- Deborah Kara Unger
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. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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. -- Hugh Laurie
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing. -- Damien Hirst
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing. -- Tim Burton
I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures. -- Seymour Cassel
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London. -- Marianne Faithfull
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid. -- Dario Argento
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress. -- Joan Smalls
I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that exhibition at the Met in 1983. Because I'm sure that Saint Laurent started looking back at his own work. You see that with artists, don't you? Once they get their first retrospective, it's really hard for them to push ahead. -- Suzy Menkes
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. -- Russell Brand
Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability." -- Nicholas Nassim Taleb
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. -- Ansel Adams
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. -- Terry Eagleton
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. -- Edward Hirsch
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. -- Alan Lightman
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent ProuvÃ©, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back. -- Patrick Seguin
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years. -- Larry Clark
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really. -- Kenneth Lacovara
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective. -- Anita Shreve
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. -- Shelley E. Taylor

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