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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!


Fannie Flagg
Tags: You People Your
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
Tags: Time People Never
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.


Magic Johnson
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I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
Robert Delaunay
Tags: Only Thing Most
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.


Henry David Thoreau
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
Tags: Time Only Too
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.


Sam Abell
Tags: Work Best Often
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble
Tags: Future Really Our
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
Alan Price
Tags: Time Never Only
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I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.


Patrick Kane
Tags: You Only Too
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Howard Nemerov
Tags: Like About Way
My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.
Henry Grunwald
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I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss
Tags: You Me More
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper
Tags: You Which Only
My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.
Nina Hoss
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I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.


Dionne Warwick
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My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.


Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Tags: Work Sit Behind
You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.
Ivan Glasenberg
Tags: Work You Your
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I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.


Geraldine Ferraro
Tags: Time Like Going
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We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.


Wayne Swan
Tags: Work You Believe