No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
“Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.” — Ryan Sean O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I… — Rachel Caine 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
“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
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
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
“Achieving real, lasting change is much harder than firing weapons at a defined enemy,’ she said.” — Fay Abernethy 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
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not… — N'Golo Kante Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded… — James John Courtenay 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“When we pull back into the castle courtyard, James is waiting. And he does not look happy. Actually he looks like a… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“José Arcadio’s companion asked them to leave them alone, and the couple lay down on the ground, close to the bed. The… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It was the middle of the afternoon, on a sunny day in early August of 1952, when we pulled into the bus… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“A problem is that Nathan documents Shirley Mason as suffering from a variety of symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder prior to… — Colin A. Ross 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
“They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I’d have to agree.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.” — Peter Watts 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
“Rule No. 5: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers So Use a Business Model Canvas” — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
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