“They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I’d have to agree.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.” — Ryan Sean O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
I like to go into the box and score goals, maybe from first contact or two touches. — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements." — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
“Rule No. 5: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers So Use a Business Model Canvas” — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.” — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
Guys who aren't going to be brought down on first contact, they'll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away… — Zac Taylor Copy Share Image
It's true that no policy fully survives first contact. But if you don't spend time anticipating the shots you are likely to… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
“Achieving real, lasting change is much harder than firing weapons at a defined enemy,’ she said.” — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,… — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts,… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they're kind of... I don't know, they're sort… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
“The first contact of brush on canvas is a heady thing. I think it's the promise of something wonderful, beautiful. You can… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“ Meeting and Greeting 1. Use eye contact and smiling as your first contact with others. In doing so, you can scout… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“ The Resume Your resume is like an advertisement for you as a job candidate. It should present you in the best… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“...a small part of me that worried that Tori wouldn’t be here when I arrived, that I pushed her too far, too… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and… — Timothy James Dean Copy Share Image
“She had seen Holden on the newsfeeds and reports. At the beginning of the war between Mars and the Belt, he had… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“[The intellect of fallen man] may be compared to a buzz-saw that is sharp and shining, ready to cut the boards that… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“Now that we are all properly introduced,” I continue, “Back to business. Why are you here?” “Earthers need help, yes?” Janis asks.… — Sally Ember Ed.D Copy Share Image
When I watch alien movies, I want to be the alien. I don't want to be the people that make first contact… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
![“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence” quote by Georg Brandes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/georg-brandes-10610_attributes_nietzsche-attributes-to-himself-an-extre_2955947.jpg)
![“I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and then Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific [one of the places I grew up]. There I found the picture of 'the Father.' It was a real, gigantic Saltwater Crocodile (whose picture is now…” quote by Timothy James Dean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/977/timothy-james-dean-283399_action_i-was-on-one-of-my-world-walkabouts-it-h_2410491.jpg)
![“[The intellect of fallen man] may be compared to a buzz-saw that is sharp and shining, ready to cut the boards that come to it. Let us say that a carpenter wishes to cut fifty boards for the purpose of laying the floor of a house. He has marked his boards. He has set his saw. He begins at one end…” quote by Cornelius Van Til](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/cornelius-van-til-30277_first-contact_the-intellect-of-fallen-man-may-be-compa_1082632.jpg)
