Predecessors Quotes

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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. — Paul Gauguin
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to… — Renny Harlin
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. — Jim Morrison
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather… — Donald Rumsfeld
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to… — William Faulkner
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almondâ€” surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo… — Louise GluÌˆck
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood… — Scott Westerfeld
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial… — Mark Levin
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country,… — Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and… — Eugene Jarecki
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled. — Chang-Rae Lee
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American… — Jeffrey R. Immelt
The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course,… — Chuck Todd
Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly… — Theodore William Richards
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Peter Frederick Strawson

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