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Ahead Quotes
On seeing, or reaching, what's still to come.
This collection uses 'ahead' to talk about pace and timing in very different fields - an early read on where cloud computing was headed, and a candid admission of coming into one's own well after everyone else did. Related theme: Go.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are days when I don't count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don't want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
- Nov 07, 2020
To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
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- Nov 07, 2020