100+ Ahead Of Time Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

topic: Thinking, Point Break, Long, Ahead Of Time

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

- Nikola Tesla

topic: Jealous, Men, Law, Small Minds, Ahead Of Time

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

- Kevin J. Anderson

source: Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Garden, Fertilizer, Ahead Of Time

Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.

- Freeman Dyson

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

topic: Book, Writing, People, Ahead Of Time

Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Positive, Uplifting, House, Make Up Your Mind, Think Positive

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Ahead Of Time

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Bridges, Economy, Crosses, Ahead Of Time

Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

- Kate Moss

topic: Silly, Important, Looks, Ahead Of Time

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

- John Ortberg

topic: Humble, Thinking, Self, Ahead Of Time, Self Deprecating

all changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it ...

- Elizabeth Hawes

source: Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

topic: Fashion, Clothes, People, Ahead Of Time

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Plans, Follow Up, Ahead Of Time

My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Character, Writing, Journey, Ahead Of Time

An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.

- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

topic: Fascination, Irresistible, Ahead Of Time

I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I'm learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, 'Where are you? I want to come see you!' It's not a new version of me. I'm just embracing it more.

- Lily Collins

topic: Night, Live In The Moment, Want, Ahead Of Time

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

- Bobby Fischer

topic: Player, Games, Half, Collusion, Ahead Of Time

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

- Dave Barry

topic: Baby, Thinking, Boys, Insert, Uterus

You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

- Duane Michals

topic: Thinking, Expression, Wind, Ottawa, Ahead Of Time

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fashion, Warrior, Hunting, Ahead Of Time

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

- Jamie Hyneman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Talking, Training, Littles, Ahead Of Time

I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

- Heidi Julavits

source: "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Trying, Ahead Of Time

I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.

- Julie Klassen

topic: Writing, Discovery, Ideas, Synopsis, Ahead Of Time

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

- Denzel Washington

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Thinking, Trying, Want, Ahead Of Time

It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.

- Rhonda Byrne

source: Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gratitude, Morning, Practice, Ahead Of Time

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

- Anne Burrell

topic: Fun, Cutting, Onions, Ahead Of Time

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

- David Selby

topic: Character, Thinking, Ghouls, Ahead Of Time

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Math, Science, Mind, Ahead Of Time, Pompous

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

- David Dinkins

topic: Government, Ties, Guarantees, Borrowed Money, Ahead Of Time

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Hockey, Play, Ice, Ahead Of Time

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

- Rachel Held Evans

source: Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.188, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Voice, Quiet, Following, Voice Of God, Ahead Of Time

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Two, Car, Parades, Ahead Of Time

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

- Dorothea Lange

source: Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

topic: Photography, Mean, Preconceptions, Ahead Of Time

At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.

- Paul Frolich

topic: Morning, War, Squares, Great War, Ahead Of Time

I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Jesus, Funny Christmas, Shopping, Wrapping Paper, Ahead Of Time

When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

- Bernie Glassman

source: Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin

topic: Worry, Mind, Body, Ahead Of Time, Peacemaking

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.