Firsts Quotes - Page 288

First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.

That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.