First Time Quotes

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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll… — Bertolt Brecht
Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost… — Sherman Glenn Finesilver
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has… — Francois Mauriac
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the… — Rajneesh
You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the… — Rajneesh
When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual. — Rajneesh
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are… — Jack Kerouac
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good… — Queen Elizabeth II
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. — Rajneesh

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