Top 1200 Put Yourself First Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

An IVF patient is - is living and breathing hope. It's... it's, um... it's - You wouldn't do it if you didn't have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

I suppose I've been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

I signed my first publishing deal when I was 14, and it was from two records I put on MySpace.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.'

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

My parents raised me to put school first and modeling and extracurriculars second.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Study water. Try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. You just have to let yourself be in it. It's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. Put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. Eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. Also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. So, let yourself be like that. God is in nature, everywhere and always. And we have so much to learn.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.

For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

I will always put family first. Every time I haven't, I have regretted it and apologised.

Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It's peculiar.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it's all about pleasing people. It's all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can't just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader's vanity, whether you tell yourself you're doing that or not.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time theres been a real, significant governmental body participation. In our case, its Collin County and the City of Frisco, the Frisco Economic Development group and the Frisco Independent School District. Those bodies, and Hunt Sports Group, obviously, put money into the project, and that has helped make it work.

My sister, like our mother, always put her children first.

I think when you go through a breakup, the first initial thing you do is put on music.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.

I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.