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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.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

Quotes by Shervin Pishevar

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.

Quotes by Shel Silverstein

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

Quotes by Shawn Ryan

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

Quotes by Sharon Stone

No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile?...

Quotes by Sendhil Mullainathan

Why aren't we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? That's a pretty valid attempt to influence an election. Somebody giving her the debate questions and the answers of an election.

Quotes by Sean Spicer

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Quotes by Sean Patrick Thomas

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Quotes by Sean Penn

The makers of 'Ushakaal' said that if I don't do the film they would shelve the project. I didn't want a good subject to be shelved because of me so I went ahead and did the film.

Quotes by Sayaji Shinde

I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

Quotes by Scarlett Johansson

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Quotes by Saul Alinsky

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Quotes by Sarah McLachlan

I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so...

Quotes by Sanjeev Bhaskar

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Quotes by Samuel Lover

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

Quotes by Sam Abell

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

Quotes by Sally Pearson

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

Quotes by Sally Ride

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

Quotes by Sai Baba

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Quotes by Said Musa

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

Quotes by Sachin Tendulkar

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.