Firsts Quotes - Page 55

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

Life is first boredom, then fear.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?