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Ahead Quotes

On seeing, or reaching, what's still to come.

This collection uses 'ahead' to talk about pace and timing in very different fields - an early read on where cloud computing was headed, and a candid admission of coming into one's own well after everyone else did. Related theme: Go.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Quotes by Tony Levin

If summer racing didn't exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I'll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone...

Quotes by Tony McCoy

The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it.

Quotes by Tony Curran

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Quotes by Tommy Bolt

For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn't missed anything, unlike the generation of my parents, who were deprived of a lot of things. They couldn't...

Quotes by Tom Wlaschiha

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

Quotes by Tom Smothers

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

Quotes by Tom Hopkins

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no...

Quotes by Tom Hanks

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play...

Quotes by Tom Brady

I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.

Quotes by Tom Brokaw

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Quotes by Tina Brown

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Quotes by Tim Huelskamp

Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that...

Quotes by Tim Huelskamp

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

Quotes by Tim Cahill

Jeff Eastin is good in that he'll tell me a plot twist that's coming up if he thinks it would be something Peter would know ahead of time, and if it's something that would be a surprise to Peter, I'll...

Quotes by Tim DeKay

I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them and up for the mayhem ahead....

Quotes by Tilda Swinton

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Quotes by Thomas J. Watson

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Quotes by Thabo Mbeki

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead...

Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote explaining cloud computing?
Yes - one quote explains it plainly: "Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer," adding that the speaker firmly believes cloud computing "will become very widespread."
Is there a quote about being a "late bloomer" in a career?
Yes. One quote describes being "a late bloomer," noting that "Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead," while the speaker didn't come into their own until later - and that they feel "that's true in cinema, too."
Is there a sports-related quote about a task ahead?
Yes: "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."
Is there a quote about art being ahead of revolution?
Yes, a brief, thought-provoking one: "Sometimes art is ahead of revolution."
Where can I find more quotes about looking forward?
Visit our Go and Look quotes pages for more.

Sport and art both make an appearance too, from facing a difficult match on the calendar to the idea that art often moves ahead of revolution itself. See also Life and Good.