Top 213 Precedes Quotes & Sayings

Man's existence precedes his essence

Action often precedes the feeling.

Experience precedes understanding.

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

The vision always precedes the realization

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Involution always precedes evolution.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

Crisis precedes transformation.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Literature precedes genre.

Perception precedes reality.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

The vision always precedes reality.

My reputation precedes me now.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Understanding precedes peace.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

Clarity precedes success.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

Bragging often precedes begging.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.