Firsts Quotes

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.

I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big.

On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation everyone is wealthy.

I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

First be a good animal.

The finest poetry was first experience.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.

Adams first law of survival: Get even first.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

The first love is the difficult love.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983.

First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.

First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.