Firsts Quotes
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up
When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.
Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what's good for Washington carve outs.
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.
3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and sleep are the first casualties of an assignment.
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."
Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.
It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'
That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.
For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.