Top 201 Predecessors Quotes & Sayings
Explore popular Predecessors quotes.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews or paintings.
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
It wasn't the best choice. I made a mistake. It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed. And as I have said and as now has come out, my predecessors did the same thing and many other people in the government.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Moreover, there is nothing wrong in wearing a bikini or other skimpy attires, as many of my predecessors have set a trend in it.
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be so far outside the bounds of tradition that he must be treated differently from his predecessors.
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.
I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.
I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
