In Advance Quotes

#1. Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

Joshua Cohen

#2. I hope you brought your wallet, 'cause the rent in Hell gets paid in advance!

Sarge

#3. I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

Joanna Kerns

#4. we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact,
we may not be choosing anything.
It could be that anything's decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices.
Free will may be an illusion

Haruki Murakami

#5. To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

#6. We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

George Harrison

#7. Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#8. A man of God is seeking a situation to exterminate nocturnal vermin. The fee is fifty pounds, half of which will be due in advance.

Brooklyn Ann

#9. A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Walter Kirn

#10. Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

Toni Morrison

#11. Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

Anne Perry

#12. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#13. The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.

Thomas Hardy

#14. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

Peter Menzel

#15. There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

Boyd K. Packer

#16. George Stephenson, with a sagacity of mind in advance of the science of his day, answered, when asked what was the ultimate cause of motion of his locomotive engine, 'that it went by the bottled-up rays of the sun.

Carl Wilhelm Siemens

#17. Small moment, missed opportunities, things we don't see or pay attention to at the time sometimes have a far bigger impact on our lives than we would have ever guessed in advance.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#18. I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. It is quite impossible to guess in advance what will interest a man, but most men are capable of a keen interest in something or other, and when once such an interest has been aroused their life becomes free from tedium.

Bertrand Russell

#20. Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.

Susan Neiman

#21. To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.

Andrew Solomon

#22. You know what your problem is, Sasha?" Rex said. "You always want to have every little detail worked out in advance. You've got to leave some room for improvisation." "My concern, sir, is that you've given such a wide berth to improvisation that you've left no room for planning." "You

Robert Kroese

#23. I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

Pope Francis

#24. A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it's finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

Pablo Picasso

#25. The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Brian Tracy

#26. There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

Laura Schlessinger

#27. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. ... "Built-in" does not mean unmalleable; it means "organized in advance of experience."3

Jonathan Haidt

#28. An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Blaise Pascal

#29. My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Robert Frank

#30. Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

Bob Ehrlich

#31. I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Fritz Sauckel

#32. I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

Shaquille O'Neal

#33. The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.

Lydia Lunch

#34. Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Jason Fried

#35. Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.

Anthony Trollope

#36. Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

Tom Jones

#37. I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.

Svetlana Khorkina

#38. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

Feist

#39. To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

John McDonald

#40. The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#41. The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,

Martin Scorsese

#42. Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

Bill Gates

#43. As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Jeanne Moreau

#44. I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Kevin Smith

#45. There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

Kristen Bell

#46. Most every day - if not every day - for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it's going to be.

Bill Self

#47. There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

Robin McKinley

#48. I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.

Christopher Moore

#49. Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare yourself for those changes no matter what you do in advance.
The only thing that's a certainty in always wondering who's going to be next.

J.A. Redmerski

#50. In international relations, sometimes the best indicator of what someone is going to do is what he tells you he is going to do. And, since it is a religious obligation in Islam to warn your enemies in advance, there was reason to pay particular attention to what he had to say.

Michael Morell

#51. Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

#52. Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#53. Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

William Henry Ashley

#54. I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

Lamar Hunt

#55. The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Aeschylus

#56. In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Milan Kundera

#57. A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.

Stuart Kauffman

#58. There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.

Greg Van Eekhout

#59. My maxim is always this,' he once told a student, 'consider every step carefully in advance, but then, if you believe you can take responsibility for it, let nothing stop you.

Manjit Kumar

#60. With goals you can create the future in advance.

Tony Robbins

#61. Success demands payment in advance

Matt DeCoursey

#62. I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

Jeremy Rifkin

#63. We had long passed the stage where the consequences of tactical armed response were weighed in advance.

Charlie Huston

#64. We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.

Jim Cymbala

#65. Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

Nicki Minaj

#66. Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Brian Tracy

#67. Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

Jack London

#68. She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. What a stupid place to live - stretched thin, overbooked, sold out in advance.

Jennifer Egan

#69. On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives.

Shirley Maclaine

#70. Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Evan Thomas

#71. A team leader will have to deal with difficulties that he needs to know about in advance

Sunday Adelaja

#72. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Arnold Bennett

#73. Don't drag candidates through weeks of endless interviews. Don't flake out on interviews. At DeveloperAuction, we often have offer letters prepared in advance, so we can hand them to great candidates as they are leaving the office.

Matt Mickiewicz

#74. Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.

Mari Carmen Ramirez

#75. Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

Bob Edwards

#76. Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.

Bob Burg

#77. The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

Timothy Geithner

#78. At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

Gail Simmons

#79. I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

Bo Jackson

#80. The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

William Ramsay

#81. Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

Sheryl Sandberg

#82. It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

Elizabeth Peters

#83. We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Paul Krugman

#84. [On setting all clocks at varying times in advance...]
A selfless gesture on my part which ensures I am never late, but really only means that I spend time waiting not only for people who are late but also for people who are on time.

Jon Richardson

#85. Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#86. The answer can only be that God has given Adam free will, and therefore Adam may do things that God Himself cannot anticipate in advance.

Margaret Atwood

#87. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Seth Godin

#88. If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Luigi Pirandello

#89. Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

Terry Brooks

#90. But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

Philip A. Fisher

#91. The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

Evan Esar

#92. I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

Gardner Dozois

#93. Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Cherrie Moraga

#94. Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

Adam Carolla

#95. As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match against it
a match that is list in advance.

Paul Valery

#96. I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.

Jared Tame

#97. We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out
when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.

James P. Carse

#98. Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them).

William D. Edwards

#99. Sal is the best partner in the world but, sadly, we don't actually work well together. She insists on knowing what we are doing in advance of doing it. I prefer to discover what we end up with. Fundamentally

J. David Cox

#100. A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Gertrude Stein