Top 1200 Put First Things First Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Parker wasn't supposed to be a series. He was supposed to be one book, and if he was only going to be in one book, I didn't worry about it. And then an editor at Pocket Books said "Write more books about him." So I didn't go back at that point and give him a first name. If I'd known he would've been a series, I would've done two things differently. First, I would've given him a first name because that means for 27 books, I've had to find some other way to say, "Parker parked the car."

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth

The audition process for 'Are You There, Chelsea?' was overwhelming and exciting. It was my first pilot season and one of the first pilots I auditioned for.

They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

Adams first law of survival: Get even first.

As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

I put myself in front of people who can say yes to me, and I deliver value first.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

I think we've got to make a case that I'm ready, that I put my country first, and it's time to put aside partisan rancor and differences and work together for the country and that I can create jobs and restore our economy and keep our country safe.

I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because it was really white—was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.

I have to remember I am a defender first and do my job there first and foremost.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.

Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time I've used any outside songs at all; until now it's only been stuff that I've written. This is also the first album of mine that's had any co-writes on it, as well. It's a big step, coming off of anything we've ever done before.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was 'Mr. Mom.' That was my first feature film.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

I've had the dream of being a world champion since I put on my first pair of gloves.

I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'

A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

Our first responders are the first line of defense for Alabama.

A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.