Top 1200 Previous Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

All I need to worry about is have I done better than my previous film or not.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

It's always a special game when you play against your previous club.

We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

If you are born a female and live as one, you can't deny your connection to feminism. I think if you are a female, you are a feminist. As far as my work goes, I don't want it to be interpreted solely from a feminist perspective, of course, but for a woman to have no interest in feminism or say that it doesn't concern her is self-denial. I know that sexism still exists within various societies and systems, whether blatantly or subtly. We are, however, much better off than previous generations.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life?

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

It's a fight for every actor to surpass what they have done in their previous film, especially when it is accepted hugely.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.

Our Muslim friends must learn from previous waves of immigration.

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

Compared to my previous films, 'Kaasi' is special. All credit goes to the director.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

If you cannot fulfill the aspirations of people, what is the difference between you and the previous government?

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

Replacing someone who has scored more than 30 goals in the previous season is not easy.

Every phase of a film has to go against what was done in the previous one.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Though I am not a veteran actor yet, I will do my best based on what I learned from previous experiences.

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.