Top 1200 Get Ahead Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Sometimes the most incredible shows don't do well because they're ahead of their time or people just don't get into it quickly enough.

Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!

I always thought that the fastest way for me to get ahead and get noticed and to do well was to make my act very accessible. When I first started, I talked about family stuff, my dog, my cat. It was all I knew back then; I wasn't forcing anything, but I wasn't like, 'Hey, don't you hate doing homework?'

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren't going to let that happen in Florida.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

You can spend your life looking over your shoulder or you can look ahead. I choose to look ahead

The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why

If I find someone who is suitable, then I will definitely take the relationship ahead, but no one can force me to get married.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

I want to be a voice for the thousands of women in our community who work hard, play by the rules, and still are struggling to get ahead.

It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

I didn't want to get caught up in the mind-set that, 'Wait a minute, I'm ahead of Magic. I better slow down.'

I just look ahead to the next match. I just want to keep going and not look too far ahead.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

If we get a good response to 'Bhootnath 2' and 'Creature,' we would surely go ahead and make the next part.

Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.