I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
The goals will come; we just have to think about working ahead of the next game.
It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.
I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.
I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever.
I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.
The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.
There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
