T Quotes
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“The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.”
Source: The List of 7
“The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.”
Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
“The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.”
“The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.”
“The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”
Source: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
“The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“The first principle of aid is respect.”
“The first principle of all action is leisure.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.”
“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”
“The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.”
“The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.”
“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.”
“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.”
“The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.”
“THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.”
“The first principle of life is love. The second principle is kindness. The third principle is compassion. The fourth principle is trust. The firth principle is integrity.”
“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”
“The first principle of monotheist religions is 'God exists. What does He want from me?' The first principle of buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“The first principle of social development is, authority doesn't solve a problem, expertise guided by character does.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.”
“The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”
Source: Riches Within Your Reach
“The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.”
“The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.”
Source: Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo
“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")”
Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.”
“The first principle to financial freedom is to spend less than you earn, but never deprive yourself to have those good vehicles,make those lake trips provided you don't fall in debts.You don't need to be rich to be financially successful, provided you don't worry when paying the bills and you have enough left in the bank”
“The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.”
“The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.”
“The first principles upon which the Paris working-men agreed with the British trade-unionists and Owenites, when they met in 1862 and 1864, at London, was that "the emancipation of the working-men must be accomplished by the working-men themselves.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread
“The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.”
“The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”
“The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.”
“The first priority of the business is to add value to the customers lives, in exchange for payment.
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“The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.”
“The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.”
Source: Essence of Ninjutsu
“The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest traditions of your continent, the arrival of a child is always a gift, a blessing from God. Today it is high time to place greater emphasis on this: every human being, every tiny human person, however weak, is created 'in the image and likeness of God' (Gen 1:27)”
“The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.”
Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929
“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that at any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened The Fraud Police.
In my case, I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard (I don't know why he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read.”
Source: Make Good Art