Firsts Quotes - Page 47

If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.