Richard Lamm

Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.

American Politician

John Singleton

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

American Director

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Gary Hamel

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

American Businessman

Yoshihide Suga

My job, as I've said, is to break down sectionalism, vested interests and a fixed mindset of merely following precedents, so that I'm not subjected to the harmful effects of factions.

Japanese Politician

John Roberts

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

American Judge

Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

American Historian

Nicholas Galitzine

It's our responsibility as young men to set a new precedent for the next generation.

English Actor

Susan Collins

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

Arlen Specter

Used often in legal discussions to reference past court decisions influencing current cases.

Legal Context

Indicates that the past action or decision has enough authority to guide present ones.

Authority Reference

Highlights that something was first done in the past which affects actions today.

Past Influence

Can apply to general behaviors or actions, not just legal cases, making them customary or expected.

Wider Contexts

Leaders or figures of authority can set precedents that affect how others operate.

Leadership Influence

Some precedents can shape or reflect cultural values and societal norms over time.

Cultural Significance

 so what we want to explore here is we've got this digital age so information is instant people can celebrate in an instant people can argue in an instant and these these these elements did not have a precedent in the world of media reporting every time there's a new major

Oversharing on Social...

 They thought a fireplace could draw people in and help start conversations. And everybody wanted the work of social justice to be visible to the outside world. There really wasn't a precedent for this kind of space, so we looked around the globe and found examples

Buildings that blend...

 It was perhaps this precedent that inspired Juana’s lifelong confidence. At age three, she secretly followed her older sister to school. When she later learned that higher education was open only to men, she begged her mother to let her attend in disguise.

History's "worst" nun -...

 by this I co-founded an organization that fostered innovation and invested in Somali startups so they can in return create jobs and address big societal challenges facing the country when my co-founders and I started there was no precedents for a start-up

Looking for innovation...

 I and others pointed out that nature has done the same experiments zillions of times already, via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.

Martin Rees: Can we...

 our complaint was accepted dredging had to stop here and then that sent a legal precedent which allowed dredging to be stopped in other special areas of conservation as two three four years went by it became very exciting we were

Protecting Scotland's...

 Well, I think everybody will be really proud that humanity came together on a global basis to make this radical change and there's no precedent for it. Even world wars, where we orchestrated lots of resources,

Bill Gates: The...

 This new compulsion toward self-exposure is possibly the biggest social experiment in history. We're making life-altering decisions about our personal boundaries with no guidance and no precedent.

Bryce Dallas Howard: How...

 But how to tell the stories of humanity and nature at a time when our planet is burning and there is no precedent for what we're about to experience collectively

If trees could speak PIPE...

 "What uncertainty are you humble about?" And this by the way, isn't some fantasy about how public life and public conversations could work. It has precedent.

Precedent