Firsts Quotes - Page 107

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well

The first myth of management is that it exists.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and as a consequence, I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.