To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.
