Firsts Quotes - Page 71

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still some higher price. The goal is to buy the first, avoid the second, and sell the third.

First do it, then say it.

My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

We started filming [with Brandy Burre ]and didn't really know, at first, what we were doing. Eventually, the thing just grabbed a hold of both of us and became what it is. But, yeah, we were very close before and we're even closer now.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.