Firsts Quotes - Page 20

• To have more, you must first be more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Military

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• A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

  Christy Mathewson

  Travel, Spring, Journey

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.93, Penguin

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• I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

  Jock Sturges

  Travel, Children, Journey

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• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  Michael W. Smith

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• Friendship first, competition second.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Competition

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• To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Real, Smart

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• First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, People

  "Mike Krzyzewski on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Enough, Baskets

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• French was my first language.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Language

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• The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Years, Littles

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

  Leonard Cohen

  Makeup, Years, Doe

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• The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

  Lucretius

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Eye

  "De rerum natura".

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• One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Fate, Hands, Differences

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• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, Years

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• The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Children, Food

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• Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Work, Trying, Half

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Acting, Action, Born

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mom, Badass, Mean

  Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti.

  Justin Bieber

  Cocky, White, Dating

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• 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 give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples of Christ. Before we can be filled with this pure love, we must start at the beginning with the first principle of the gospel. We must have "first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Charity, Principles

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• To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

  Chris Brogan

  Names, Marketing, Twenties

  Chris Brogan, Julien Smith (2010). “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust”, p.180, John Wiley & Sons

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• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Wally Lamb

  Attention, Stories, Hardship

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• If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  Laozi

  People, Perception, Overcoming

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