First Thing Quotes

791 First Thing quotes by 676 unique authors

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a… — Maria Montessori
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. — Renny Harlin
The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . — W.C. Fields
The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then, I told myself, "Go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me." — Jack Handey
Isn't it funny how whenever we go to a county fair or a state fair, the first thing we do is see if they have… — Jack Handey
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I… — Jack Handey
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Unknown Author
Whenever we see something that we want to create, the first thing we bump into is these beliefs (reasons) that have shaped our experience thus… — Harold Homer Anderson
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become… — Mark Spitz
So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for… — Rajneesh
When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel. — Rick Warren
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a… — Cynthia Lennon
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. — Gustav Heinemann
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the… — Alex Tabarrok
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put… — Ian Bogost
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader… — Ellen Gilchrist
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. — Ellen Gilchrist
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind,… — John Farrar
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it… — Ralph Caplan
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so. — Norman Potter
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to… — Aldous Huxley
The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus… — Stefano Langone
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done. — Angus Young

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