Ahead Of Time Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Dance, Wisdom

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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• The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration

  "Small and Simple Things". Book by Marjorie Pay Hinckley, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

  Matt Long

  Thinking, Long, Point Break

  Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

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• I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Jealous, Men, Law

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• When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

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• Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.

  Freeman Dyson

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.

  Joel Osteen

  Positive, Uplifting, House

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• Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Bridges, Economy, Crosses

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• Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

  Kate Moss

  Silly, Important, Looks

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• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Thinking, Self

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• All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

  Michael Jackson

  Plans, Follow Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Journey

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Fascination, Irresistible

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• I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I'm learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, 'Where are you? I want to come see you!' It's not a new version of me. I'm just embracing it more.

  Lily Collins

  Night, Live In The Moment, Want

  "5 Things You Don't Know About Lily Collins!". www.seventeen.com. July 29, 2013.

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• There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Games, Half

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• There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Thinking, Boys

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• You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, Expression, Wind

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