Staying Ahead Quotes

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

If you want to remain the best, you have to keep on doing what you are good at.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.