Top 72 Precedes You Quotes
#1. He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you."
I bristled. "I am not that curious!"
"You are curious as any cat, my love ...
Deanna Raybourn
#2. The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
R. Scott Bakker
#3. I take it you know my companion?"
Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything."
Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.
Simon R. Green
#4. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#5. The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
Margot Asquith
#6. Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Rita Mae Brown
#8. Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.
William Carleton
#9. Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
Abraham Lincoln
#10. What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
Soren Kierkegaard
#11. The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.
Christopher Hitchens
#12. Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.
May Sarton
#13. Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
#14. Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
Bill Walsh
#16. Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.
William Kennedy
#17. The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
Maria Montessori
#18. When a heavy weight presses the soul to the lowest level at which endurance is possible, there is an instant and desperate effort of every physical and moral nerve to throw off the weight; and hence the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#19. The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.
Stefan Zweig
#20. It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.
Alfred North Whitehead
#21. Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.
Robin Sharma
#22. The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak
Rajneesh
#23. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.
Nidesh Lawtoo
#24. Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs
Gautama Buddha
#25. You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.
Philip Gerard
#26. Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven't been educated for and you Excel.
Vikrmn
#27. You didn't fail ... You just didn't use the right method. It's neither hail nor storm ... It's just a stir that precedes the settlement of your destiny. Believe that you will not remain on the ground. Wake up and try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
Sophia Loren
#29. The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.
John Wooden
#30. Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.
Andre Agassi
#31. Reach high for the stars that hidden in your soul. Dream precedes the goal
Saeed Jones
#32. There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian ... and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom ... I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#33. Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find.
Peter Morville
#34. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Rabindranath Tagore
#35. The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
C.S. Lewis
#36. Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?
Jeffrey Gitomer
#37. Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
Anne Roiphe
#38. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem ...
Max McKeown
#39. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#40. Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
#41. The drowsiness which often accompanies or precedes a severe common migraine is occasionally abstracted as a symptom in its own right, and may then constitute the sole expression of the migrainous tendency. The
Oliver Sacks
#43. Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,
Gavin De Becker
#44. The vision always precedes reality.
Leon Tom
#45. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.
Michael Hyatt
#46. The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
Benjamin Disraeli
#47. Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed.
In fact Angels have no religion as we know it ...
Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever
existed on Earth ...
Thomas Aquinas
#48. The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive
Fred Polak
#49. Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
Max De Pree
#50. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#51. Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
#54. Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.
Alan Lightman
#55. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
#56. It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
Albert A. Michelson
#57. As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
Lynne Tillman
#58. Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
Shawn Achor
#59. The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
Woodrow Wilson
#60. It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
Paul Di Filippo
#61. In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#62. The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
A. C. Bradley
#64. The "experience" which we need to understand logic is not that such and such is the case, but that something is; but that is no experience. Logic precedes every experience - that something is so. It is before the How, not before the What.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#65. Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
Josef Pieper
#66. Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.
Richard Realf
#67. Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought ... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
Clarice Lispector
#68. The chief lesson to be learnt from it is the futility of all argumentation that precedes understanding. We cannot profitably attack any opinion until we have discovered what it expresses as well as what it states.
Ivor A. Richards
#69. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#70. As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.
Richard Diebenkorn
#71. The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#72. Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.
Shai Tubali
