Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

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.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

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.

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.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.

No one man can take on the mantle of another.

I succeed him. No one can replace him.

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

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

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

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn't know anything about the business until I started myself.