First Rule Quotes
111 quotes by 93 authors
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First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
— Arthur Bloch
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides…
— T. Harv Eker
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
— Alvin Toffler
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My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
— George Carlin
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COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would…
— John C. Maxwell
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in…
— Martin Luther
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Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original.…
— J M Coetzee
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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If…
— Elizabeth Aston
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Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
— Jon Stewart
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and…
— Alan Alda
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The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the…
— Mark Pincus
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The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first…
— Thomas Sowell
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I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to…
— Max Brooks
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I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is…
— Nigel Cole
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No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.
— Deepak Chopra
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The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that…
— George R. R. Martin
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Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
— Georges St-Pierre
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is…
— Bill Gates
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I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job,…
— Justin Cronin
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