What Am I Riddles

Question: I know all, have seen all, yet I am not conscious. Looking back upon me shows mistakes and also good things. Looking in the middle of me shows opportunities to be exploited. Looking forward upon me shows the effects of decision. What am I?

Question: What smells better than it tastes?

Question: I am just an ordinary word that comes in form of a man, accepted by many but rejected by a few, not felt by many but felt by a few, not shown by many but shown by a few. What am I?

Question: When I am released to the wind,
you look away and you pretend,
but away your friends I will send.

What am I?

Question: Under pressure is the only way I work,
and by myself is the only way I'm hurt.

What am I?