Before Quotes

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.