Firsts Quotes - Page 16

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.