Firsts Quotes - Page 23

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Being the first is old media, while being to the point is new media. And Twitter never forgets.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Before you rob your first bank, knock off a couple of gas stations.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.