Precedent quotes

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
-- Agnes Denes

#Philosopher #Precedent

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
-- Agnes Denes

#Likes #Fit #Precedent

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Kings #Men #Precedent

Stability means respecting precedents.
-- Arlen Specter

#Mean #Precedent #Stability

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Generations #Glory #Precedent

A precedent embalms a principle.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Intelligent #Principles #Precedent

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
-- Claude Debussy

#Century #Precedent #Deserve

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
-- Gary Hamel

#Organization #Way #Precedent

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
-- Glen Cook

#Historical #Cynicism #Precedent

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
-- Howard Carter

#Sight #Vision #Precedent

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
-- Ian Fleming

#Writing #Precedent

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.
-- Irvine Welsh

#Behaviour #Realizing #Precedent

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
-- John F. Kennedy

#Promise #Breaking Promises #Precedent

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Past #Precedent

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.
-- Michael Hyatt

#Important #Precedent

Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Civilization #Progress #Precedent

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
-- Owen Hart

#Kind #Precedent #Belts