Firsts Quotes - Page 167

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

The first great law is to obey.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Effect should come first. Method second.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his life but he’s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is Höwedes.

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.