Best ability & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”

Want Firsts Mean Universe Ability Clinton Albums What You Want Solo

Author:Bernie Worrell

“Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.”

Firsts School Law Black President Ability Built Reputation Bridges Division Reviews Harvard Ideological Law School Public Image Harvard Law School

Author:Mara Liasson

“The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.”

Thinking Way Want Firsts Ability Steps Rich Acquire First Steps Get Rich Visualization

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.”

Firsts Problem Ability Management Blame

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“Adams first law of survival: Get even first.”

Firsts Law Ability Survival

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”

World Want Firsts Ends Bigs Choices Ability Pay Steps Middle Internet Limits Concern Paid Customers Access Users Tolls Providers

Author:Vinton Cerf

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.”

“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.”

Firsts Wells Lines Wealth Ability Poor Pay Rich Citizens Workers Income Doctrine Corporations Widows Waitress Housemaids

Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.”

Men Firsts Ability Rate Every Man Fifth

Author:J. G. Holland

“The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!”

Firsts Ability Events Depends Truth Is Adversity Accumulation

Book:The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

Source: The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.”

Firsts Artist Opportunity Ability Successful Conscious Finance Being Successful Without Music Notoriety

Author:Curtis Jackson

“The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.”

Needs Firsts Important Play Pain Games Realizing Ability Seasons Grind Physical Pain Backup Offseason

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.”

Needs Firsts Book Ideas Stories Form Ability Accepting Novel Guts Imperfect Uncertain Revision

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

“The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.”

Firsts Ability Steps Creating Developing First Steps

Book:Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

Source: Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

“He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.”

Firsts May Able Ability Trouble Danger Building Foundation Lays Architect

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.”

Firsts May Found Ability Quality Expectations Shining Rate Companion Second Rate

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Certain My Own Ability Secret Goes On Essentials Gains Calm Requirements Peace Within Stay Calm

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.”

People Firsts Looks Helping Humor Political Community Ability Responsibility Groups Institutions Charity Instance Administration Life Changing Political Humor Faith Based

Author:George W. Bush

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.”

Want Firsts Ability Study Products Research Sells

Author:Clive Cussler

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”

Thinking Should Firsts Doe Ability Pay Principles Universal Determine Committed Critical Access Medical

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.”

Thinking Firsts Ability Civilization Conversation Polite Prerequisites Polite Conversation

Author:W. H. Auden

“There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and wouldn't get the opportunity to see. It's exciting. That's where our whole thought process originated from.”

Want Firsts Whole Film Opportunity Process Ability Company Audience Exciting Thought Process

Author:Courtney Solomon

“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.”

Thinking Knows World Want Firsts Made Stills Matter Character Facts Film Ability Watches Audience Type Directors Storytelling Despite Aliens Mastery Another World

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating.”

People Way Want Needs Firsts Believe Has Beens Jobs Life Is Ability Source Resources Bigger Expected Source Of Life

Author:Myles Munroe

“I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."”

Firsts Jobs Ability Mike Dependability

Author:Mike Royer

“First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.”

Way Firsts Ability Emotional Conversation Tasks Incredibles Assets One Time Multiple Sensitivity Documentaries Intimidating Being A Woman

Author:Ondi Timoner

“When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.”

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Author:John Sexton

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.”

Firsts Lasts Sports Ability Forever Degrees Quitting Never Quit Athletic Athletic Ability

Author:Arthur Jones

“I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.”

Firsts Believe Stories Order Ability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'”

Mind Firsts Stills Two Ideas Ability Wife Tests Function Police Rate Scott Fitzgerald

Book:When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort.”

Should Firsts Believe States Lasts Used I Believe Ability Amount Economics Resorts Quota

Author:Kristina Schroder

“First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.”

Firsts Believe Moments Reality Jobs Ability Leader Written Believe In You Moments In Time

Author:Mark Millar

“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”

People Firsts May War States Character Government Political Ability Situation Enemy Effects Resources Opposites Regard Aim Evaluate Gauges

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.”

Firsts Stills Night Ability Eternal Beats Weakness Eternity Sight Raised Beloved Rays Dread Sigh Blazing Ability To See

Author:Saint Augustine

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