#earlier

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#earlier #just #much #one day #other

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#certain #concepts #demonstration #earlier #exciting

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#earlier #go #kid #kind #know

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.' ↗

— Sam Elliott

#been #boy #career #earlier #formal

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#doing #earlier #i #observe #outside

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. ↗

— Allen Klein

#center #damaged #destroyed #earlier #financial

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#earlier #i #keep #light #most

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father