All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman. . . That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck. '
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.
All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder. ' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!
All human progress is preceded by new questions
When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.
