Predecessor Quotes

45 quotes by 44 authors

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures â€“ it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to… — Isaac D'Israeli
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his… — Martin O'Malley
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything… — Troy Duffy
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest… — Jonathan Kellerman
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the… — Philip Rieff
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse… — Samuel Johnson
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as… — David Garrow
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for… — Don Baylor
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. — Emile Durkheim
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. — John Podhoretz
To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor. — Maria V. Snyder
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor. — Eiji Yoshikawa
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that… — Noah Feldman
My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That… — F. W. de Klerk
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great… — Severo Ochoa
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. — Richard Flanagan

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