Firsts Quotes
You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.
If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
