I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for…

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are…

— Paul Gauguin

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

— Mason Cooley

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed…

— Tommy Lasorda

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything…

— Francois Rabelais

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them…

— Lu Xun

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence…

— Milan Kundera

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments,…

— Christopher Zeeman

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president - no president, not me, not any…

— William J. Clinton

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

— Ambrose