The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
To win, or to create a great group with winning mentality, you need first stability, but serenity as well. And it is only by creating an internal and mutual trust that you can achieve it.
Get there first with the most.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word ‘Alzheimer’s disease.’
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
People first, then money, then things.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
There is no such thing as second place. Either you’re first or you’re nothing.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days… or a few months after childbirth.
You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
People thought I was cocky because I didn’t talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I’d say, ‘I am’ because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Awareness is the first step in healing.
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It’s just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it’s icy, and I’m in bare feet.
When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
I guess, first and foremost, I’d like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I’ve always had that.
I just don’t believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I’ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It’s something that I’ve always exploited – with good results.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
When you first win a trophy, you want to do it again and again. It keeps you hungry.
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m going to marry you one day.’ And 15 years later, I did.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
