Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.