Firsts Quotes - Page 28

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

To become a photographer leave your house first.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.