First Rate Quotes

89 quotes by 73 authors

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. — Eleanor Clark
American workers are first rate. — Christopher Dodd
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B. C. Forbes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern… — Jon Landau
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when… — Doris Lessing
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. — Franz Liszt
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the… — A A Milne
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker

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