Prior Quotes

279 Prior quotes by 253 unique authors

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes… — Dalai Lama
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious… — Laurie Garrett
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in… — Alexander Hamilton
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. — Alfred North Whitehead
It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace. — Byron Katie
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. — Corliss Lamont
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan… — Lev S. Vygotsky
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on… — Jerome Bruner
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, — Ravi Zacharias
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents — Elon Musk
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst… — J I Packer
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred,… — Michael Novak
How is it... that the Son and Holy Spirit are not co-unoriginate with the Father, if they are co-eternal with Him? Because they are from… — Gregory of Nazianzus
What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and… — Pope Dionysius
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular… — Greg McKeown
I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of… — Adyashanti
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is… — David Prowse
So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with… — Michael Chertoff

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