Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
‐‐ Bertrand Piccard
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
‐‐ Michael Mando
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.
‐‐ Lynn Shelton
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin
Before all else, be armed.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
‐‐ Jules Verne
Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.
‐‐ Gareth Gates
Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.
‐‐ David Archuleta
Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
‐‐ Natsuki Takaya
Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.
‐‐ Peter Schuyler
Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick
Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn
Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.
‐‐ David Thewlis
Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!
‐‐ Torrey DeVitto
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
‐‐ Fernando Botero
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
‐‐ Kevin Crossley-Holland
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.
‐‐ JJ Feild
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris
Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.
‐‐ Ted Strickland
Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.
‐‐ Tia Mowry
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood
Before beginning, plan carefully.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.
‐‐ Milla Jovovich
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
‐‐ Mike Quigley
Before being elected to Congress, I was a mayor, and it's this perspective that makes me certain that Ed FitzGerald is the right kind of leader to get Ohio back on track.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge
Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
‐‐ Ed Smith
Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
‐‐ Joe Moore
Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'
‐‐ Peter Berg
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
‐‐ Mandy Bujold
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
‐‐ Gary Numan
Before British title fights, I've played football on a Saturday before; it's silly as it is.
‐‐ Liam Smith
Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
‐‐ Bob Uecker
Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.
‐‐ Tyne Daly
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
‐‐ Eve Ensler
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon
Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian
Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.
‐‐ Craig Bierko
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
‐‐ Amanda Plummer
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
‐‐ Melissa Bank
Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'
‐‐ Cynthia Watros
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar
Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson
Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a little cream and sugar. It's a superstitious thing.
‐‐ McKayla Maroney
Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
‐‐ Adam Peaty