Firsts Quotes - Page 44

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.