Firsts Quotes - Page 52

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

To have more, you must first be more.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

No sir. The first thing is character.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Get money first; virtue comes after.

If you want people to respect you or your company, you must first show respect for them.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.