Firsts Quotes - Page 124

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first is whatever their actual job is; the second consists of managing others' impressions of them, especially by hiding weaknesses and inadequacies - which is an enormous waste of energy.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.