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Firsts Quotes - Page 191

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.101, Penguin

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.3, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Find first, seek later.

"Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

"Scientists Win Nobel For Work On How Cells Communicate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2013.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.507, Dell

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

"The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1891.