Ahead Of Time Quotes - Page 2

• There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Games, Half

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• I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Thinking, Boys

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• We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Talking, Training, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Journey

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Thinking, Self

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• It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Gratitude, Morning, Practice

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

  Hudson Taylor

  Wise, Way, Purpose

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• Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

  Michael Shermer

  Matter, Sticks, Stakes

  "What Is Skepticism, Anyway?" by Michael Shermer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

  Roland Barthes

  Games, Play, Waiting

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• The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

  William S. Burroughs

  Reality, Way, Faces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

  Bobby Flay

  Running, Romance, Want

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• I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Pay, Should

  "Robin Roberts Grills Carly Fiorina on 'Too Extreme' Sarah Palin". Interview with Robin Roberts, www.newsbusters.org. October 29, 2010.

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• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  David Dinkins

  Government, Ties, Guarantees

  PBS interview, www.thirteen.org.

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• What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Math, Science, Mind

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• I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Beginnings And Ends, Plot

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• To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Mean, Photographer

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

  Anne Burrell

  Fun, Cutting, Onions

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• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Book, Writing

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• At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.

  Paul Frolich

  Morning, War, Squares

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• When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

  Bernie Glassman

  Inspirational, Death, Buddhist

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin

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• I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Christmas, Jesus

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• Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

  Zig Ziglar

  Two, Car, Parades

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Quiet Voice, Voice Of God, Following

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.188, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

  David Selby

  Character, Thinking, Ghouls

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