Firsts Quotes - Page 65

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

Grub first, then ethics.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.