Ms. Jeffers's thesis in most of her books was simple: If we wait to stop feeling scared before trying to do what frightens us, we could wait forever; pressing ahead is the only way to erase fear.
Mr Rich hopped from St Moritz to Jamaica to Marbella and back to Switzerland, forever staying ahead of the feds (a bit like whistleblower Edward Snowden today).The pressure should have eased in 2001 when Bill Clinton pardoned him on his last day of office.
Either way, the first hurdle for Amazon to overcome on its journey is to beat Microsoft in cloud revenue and my premise is that if that achievement isn't disclosed to the world on Thursday, April 26, when both Microsoft and Amazon post their calendar-Q1 financial results, then Microsoft will forever remain ahead of Amazon in the cloud unless Amazon makes a major cloud acquisition.
In a broader sense, what we're left with are politics that are symptomatic of a turnaround culture that's constantly unsatisfied, forever looking ahead to the next thing.
The forces guarding the legitimate Mexican government – Juárez and his document-laden stagecoach — began their meander north, forever a step ahead of the French advance.
Thanks to this barrage, as you sit noshing, your appetite is forever skipping merrily ahead to your date with some sweet, icy, milk-based product.
But I have always regarded the characters on the "Up" series as a monitory advance team, like older siblings, forever one step ahead of me on the path through adolescence, the onset of adulthood, and, now, the long, narrowing years of middle age.
And the only way our nation stays ahead forever is with superior technology and innovation.
