Firsts Quotes - Page 105

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

After the Cardinals traded their No. 6 pick, I didn't know where I was going, ... The first thing I thought about was me and Ray Lewis doing that commercial, and how he made me do his laundry. And now it's actually going to be a reality.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

I've always been a conservative first.

John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.