The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
We’ve got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.
I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.
I don’t even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that’s what it comes down to in speed skating.
I’m not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn’t bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
This isn’t about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn’t even be bothered to get out of bed.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It’s not some frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim. It lies at the heart of what this country was founded upon.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!
My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear – return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid – I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Boston is always going to be a second home for me.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
The second guy always gets caught, and that’s why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.
I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.
Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that’s not exactly a full-time job. It wasn’t that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn’t. The second just outnumbered the first.
The instrumental stuff is a good challenge, and it keeps my fingers athletically tuned, but I’m totally happy to bang away on some chords, sing some harmonies and play some wailing blues solos after the second chorus.
I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
In Brazil, you know that only first place counts; in other countries, you might celebrate coming second, third, or fourth, but not in Brazil.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
I like living, breathing better than working… Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It’s a kind of constant euphoria.
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
In Korean, the word ‘future’ is made up of two parts. The first part means ‘not,’ and the second means ‘to come.’ In that sense, ‘future’ means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.
Nevada has literally become my second home.
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.
Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each suffered through his second four years. FDR was checkmated by Congress and the Supreme Court. Ike was dogged by Sputnik and reckless charges that the United States suffered from a Missile Gap. Reagan had to wend his way through Iran-Contra.
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy – I want to talk about the movie in a second – but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
There is no prize in sales for second place. It’s win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for – they fight for – that winning edge.
You have to know what you’re doing to help people and have an important stance in life. You can only do that by staying focused, and I can’t lose focus for a second.
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got ‘SNL’ in 2005.
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people’s rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can’t be trusted.
My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.
