Top 1200 First Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

My first flight was to Majorca as a 17-year-old and I went to Seattle to visit a friend after that. But the first time I really ventured out abroad to Canada and Japan as well as to Europe, to France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, was to promote my first album.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked or stole a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

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

Remember what I always say: people first, then money, then things.

In climbing, being first-rate is part of the whole enterprise. The important climbers want to be the first man up the mountain, the one who put up the first route. You're usually only remembered if you put up the first route on a very important climb. The route might even be named after you. That's a kind of glory.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.

Individually, I think things have been very, very good for me in my first season in England.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

I'm not going to throw the towel in just because things are not going great for the first time in my career.

It wasn't until I got my first son that I wasn't really able to play video games because when you have a child at home, there are infinite other things you should be doing.

Hang out with good people, do good things, and always put the team first.

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.

From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.

I literally knew nothing when I did that show ["Tony Flanagan"]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.

Hot Dog' had been my first hit in the U.K., but it was 'Marie Marie' that really changed things.

I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.

There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I know how to eat, how to exercise, keep my blood circulating. ... I don't worry. I don't get angry at people. I don't worry about things I can't help. I do what I can to make the world a better place to live, but I don't complain if things aren't right. As a scientist I take the world as I find it.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

I've seen promotions rush things to market and not be strategic about it. The first impression is the lasting impression.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'