Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
[last lines] Lorenzo: The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever.
I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'
I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Rick: Alright, I'll make it easier for you- [walks closer to Ilsa] Rick: Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.
Isaac Davis: Hit the lights. Go ahead, turn 'em out again. We'll trade fours.
Chris: Go ahead, Lee. You don't owe anything to anybody. Lee: Except to myself.
Sam: You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.
Sam: You can't just sit there and put everybody's life ahead of yours and think that count as love.
