Firsts Quotes - Page 245

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.