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  1. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue

  2. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue

  3. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue

  4. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue

  5. Speaking (or not) of Love, Peace, etc...

    I can't even remember the last time I heard or posted this:

    "Something New from Paul McCartney!"

    > Days We Left Behind (Lyric Video)

    youtube.com/watch?v=2n1IhyF6R0U

    #DaysWeLeftBehind #PaulMcCartney #music #musica #musique #musik #legend #MusicLegend #retrospect

  6. A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin

    It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?

    Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
    Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

    More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul

  7. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at that time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed the ages fled. He is but a superficial thinker who would despise and refuse to hear of them merely because they are absurd. No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action; and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The Alchymists” (1841)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mackay-charles/14856…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belief #childhood #error #growth #improvement #learning #misjudgment #mistake #opinion #personalimprovement #retrospect #review #society #youth

  8. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done to them.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/77666…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #perspective #assessment #biography #history #legacy #objectivity #perspective #posterity #retrospect

  9. A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

       And yet I would not be a child again.
    For surely as the night succeeds the day,
       So surely will their mirth turn into tears.
    And I would not return to happy hours,
       If I must live again these weary years.
    I would walk on, and leave it all behind:
       will walk on; and when my feet grow sore,
    The boatman waits — his sails are all unfurled —
       He waits to row me to a fairer shore.

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
    Poem (1868), “An Autumn Reverie,” st. 4-5, Shells (1873)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #childhood #death #growingold #happiness #mortality #nostalgia #oldage #retrospect #sadness

  10. Why didn't they MoCap Idris Elba's facial expressions, then carefully blend that performance with prosthetics in non-speaking shots?

    10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    #TrekCulture w/#SeanFerrick
    #Retrospect #SciFi #StarTrek #Cinema #Movies
    youtube.com/watch?v=QVb0Lon6Gl

  11. Why didn't they MoCap Idris Elba's facial expressions, then carefully blend that performance with prosthetics in non-speaking shots?

    10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    #TrekCulture w/#SeanFerrick
    #Retrospect #SciFi #StarTrek #Cinema #Movies
    youtube.com/watch?v=QVb0Lon6Gl

  12. Why didn't they MoCap Idris Elba's facial expressions, then carefully blend that performance with prosthetics in non-speaking shots?

    10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    #TrekCulture w/#SeanFerrick
    #Retrospect #SciFi #StarTrek #Cinema #Movies
    youtube.com/watch?v=QVb0Lon6Gl

  13. Why didn't they MoCap Idris Elba's facial expressions, then carefully blend that performance with prosthetics in non-speaking shots?

    10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    #TrekCulture w/#SeanFerrick
    #Retrospect #SciFi #StarTrek #Cinema #Movies
    youtube.com/watch?v=QVb0Lon6Gl

  14. Why didn't they MoCap Idris Elba's facial expressions, then carefully blend that performance with prosthetics in non-speaking shots?

    10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    #TrekCulture w/#SeanFerrick
    #Retrospect #SciFi #StarTrek #Cinema #Movies
    youtube.com/watch?v=QVb0Lon6Gl

  15. A quotation from Don Herold

    If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would burn up more gasoline. I would eat more ice cream and less bran. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.

    Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorist, cartoonist, author
    Essay (1931-12), “I’d Pick More Daisies,” College Humor magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herold-don/41900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #life #living #regrets #reliving #retrospect #risks #secondchance

  16. A quotation from Don Herold

    If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would burn up more gasoline. I would eat more ice cream and less bran. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.

    Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorist, cartoonist, author
    Essay (1931-12), “I’d Pick More Daisies,” College Humor magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herold-don/41900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #life #living #regrets #reliving #retrospect #risks #secondchance

  17. A quotation from Don Herold

    If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would burn up more gasoline. I would eat more ice cream and less bran. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.

    Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorist, cartoonist, author
    Essay (1931-12), “I’d Pick More Daisies,” College Humor magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herold-don/41900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #life #living #regrets #reliving #retrospect #risks #secondchance

  18. A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what’s inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
    The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #causeandeffect #events #history #interpretation #outcomes #retrospect #rootcause #understanding

  19. A quotation from Josh Billings

    We are always a-looking ahed, and that iz the way tew look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach hiz vessell.
     
    [We are always a-looking ahead, and that is the way to look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach his vessel.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76039/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anticipation #future #goal #lookingahead #lookingbehind #past #retrospect

  20. A quotation from Josh Billings

    We are always a-looking ahed, and that iz the way tew look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach hiz vessell.
     
    [We are always a-looking ahead, and that is the way to look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach his vessel.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76039/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anticipation #future #goal #lookingahead #lookingbehind #past #retrospect

  21. A quotation from Josh Billings

    We are always a-looking ahed, and that iz the way tew look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach hiz vessell.
     
    [We are always a-looking ahead, and that is the way to look; if the man at the wheel looks back he will soon beach his vessel.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76039/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anticipation #future #goal #lookingahead #lookingbehind #past #retrospect

  22. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1966)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/74…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #dawdle #delay #past #procrastination #retrospect #toolate

  23. TIL (wieder einmal aufs Neue 😁)

    Wieviel sich doch in so knapp einem Jahr verändern kann...

    #retrospect #retrospective #respectAndAdapt

  24. In 2020, I watched episodes of "Lizzie McGuire" on Disney+.

    In , I've come to realize "Lizzie McGuire" relates to me in a way because of how *I* was in high school; someone who wanted to fit in and make friends, but at the same time, chart my own path forward and have fun.

    Until then, I was *very* introverted and never outgoing. That's changed since attending my first school dance in October 2018.

    In only so many words, that's most of my life as a .