Firsts Quotes - Page 122

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.