Firsts Quotes
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
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Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.
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In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.
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I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
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Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
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I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.
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Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.
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As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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I remember music first artists second.
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The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
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When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.