First Place Quotes

879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief… — Adam Gopnik
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. — Abigail Van Buren
Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be… — Tatiana Maslany
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring — Richard Saul Wurman
Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't. — Michael Buerk
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music â€œforâ€ their fans make… — Talib Kweli
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because… — Kate Bornstein
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place. — Deepak Chopra
I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place. — Marion Cotillard
You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area. — James MacDonald
In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged:… — Molly Ivins
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first… — W. Edwards Deming
It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage… — Ian Holloway
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. — Kurt Cobain
Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods. — Billy Graham
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever… — Elizabeth Blackwell

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