#predecessor

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#must #predecessor #twice #worth

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#free #get #hate #immediate #our

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. ↗

— George Osborne

#conservative #i #independent #just #labour

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#challenge #each #enjoy #greatest #harder

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#predecessors #shoes #speak #successors #their

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#been #business #companies #consultant #enron

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#been #constitution #current #haven #members