Plato Quotes

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

No one man can take on the mantle of another.

Just think of what we'll pass on to the poor fellow who comes after me.

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.