I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a…

— Brian McKnight

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or…

— Milton Friedman

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

— Milton Friedman

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

— Karl Kraus

“Contemporaries cannot be good judges.”

— Italo Calvino

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

— Odilon Redon

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong…

— Virginia Woolf

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period…

— David Steinberg

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't…

— Carroll Shelby

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock