C. S. Lewis Quotes

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

C. S. Lewis

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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
  • Firsts
  • Songwriters

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Brain
  • Gold
  • Firsts

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.

  

  An Na
  • Believe
  • Firsts
  • Vampire

• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Different
  • Firsts

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Pride
  • Firsts
  • Prejudice

• Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

  

  E. R. Squibb
  • Health
  • Firsts
  • Healing

• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Action
  • Wisdom

• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Firsts

• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Quality
  • inspirational
  • Firsts

• When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Painting

• I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Photograph

• Sales bring out the worst in people.

  

  Haley Webb
  • People
  • Worst
  • Sales

• I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Fun
  • Pay
  • Settle

• If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Mirror
  • Spoon
  • Dent

• You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Firsts
  • Put First Things First
  • First Things First