Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
-- Abraham Flexner -
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.
-- Abraham J. Williams -
I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Being the first born gives you great patience.
-- Abraham Verghese -
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
-- Abraham Verghese -
If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
-- Abu Bakr -
The best of the people are the first to greet others.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
-- Ace Frehley -
I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.
-- Ace Hood -
To create is, first and foremost, to create time.
-- Achille Mbembe -
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
-- Ada Lovelace -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
-- Adam Ant -
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
-- Adam Grant -
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
-- Adam McKay -
Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.
-- Adam Peterson -
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
-- Adam Smith -
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
-- Adam Smith -
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
-- Adam Smith -
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
-- Adepero Oduye -
And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
-- Adolf Galland -
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
-- Adolf Hitler -
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
-- Adolf Hitler -
For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
-- Adolphe Thiers -
The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
-- Adora Svitak -
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
-- Adrian Lyne
