Quotes about firsts
firsts way remember
Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head. Donald Knuth
firsts facts problem
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner. Dale Carnegie
firsts life-is drains
I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time. Clive James
firsts steps creation
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. e. e. cummings
firsts persons first-person
I actually am always a music first person Duncan Sheik
firsts way young
...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal. Douglas Coupland
firsts crosses wanted
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else. Amy Carmichael
firsts cameras scene
So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook. Anthony Edwards
firsts world asks
Don't ask the world to change....you change first. Anthony de Mello
firsts prison should
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. Angela Davis
firsts problem social
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
firsts moments known
Every moment must be first known and then savored. Anne Rice
firsts shock madhouses
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. Anna Freud
firsts violin five
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. Andre Rieu
firsts film starting
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever. Andrea Arnold
firsts movement instinct
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work. Amelie Nothomb
firsts investment share
I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers. Andy Murray
firsts instinct
When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. Ambrose Bierce
firsts principles debate
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. Anthony Kennedy
firsts remember ifs
Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will. Chuck Norris
firsts stamps born
We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport. Alfonso Cuaron
firsts basics bigs
We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first. Alfie Kohn
firsts persons
I'm not a first-place person. Amy Sedaris
firsts grades finished
I only finished first grade. Amnat Ruenroeng
firsts welcome helping
Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.
firsts versions
The first version of everything is janky, Alexis Ohanian
firsts lucky excited
We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.
firsts existence physical-strength
Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations. Alexis de Tocqueville
firsts exhausted miserable
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted. Alexandre Dumas
firsts gateways senses
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses. Aristotle
firsts comedy treated
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
firsts principles mathematics
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
firsts virtue
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.