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“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

Firsts Care Term Humility Building Capable Reform Health Care Traits Mandates Health Care Reform

Author:Ron Fournier

“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.”

Should Firsts Pieces Building Serious Block Navy Casual Wardrobe Building Blocks Blazers

Author:Derren Brown

“I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.”

Knows Firsts Remember Fall Building Wall Down And East Brands Tall Falling Down Berlin Brand New East Berlin

Author:Moby

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”

Way Firsts Long Made Book Country Humanity Culture Building Lessons Built Communicate Tales Learning Lessons

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”

Knows Firsts Earth Sky Building Infinite Distance Towers Separating

Book:The irresistible Diderot

Source: The irresistible Diderot

“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”

Years Firsts Made Would Be Felt Style Design Building First Time Decades Architecture Accepted Orthodoxy Revolt Stirring Postmodernism Motifs

Author:Martin Filler

“Building an Effective Women's Ministry is a brand new book from Harvest House Publishers. Sharon Jaynes, vice president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, is the author. This book has planning helps for beginning and maintaining your women's ministries plus ideas for programs and special events. You know which section I turned to first, don't you? That's right. The idea section. Sharon has some good ideas. Great cover and helpful contents!!!”

“Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.”

Mind Firsts Reality Building Achievement Stones Details Architect Mentality Bricks

Book:Ambition and Success

Source: Ambition and Success

“Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.”

“Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.”

Trying Firsts Play Lines Building Please Guitar Hopefully Appeals Piano Texture Groove

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.”

Firsts Wisdom Politics Principles Economy Economic Produce Building Liberalism Symmetry Economic Power

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.”

Firsts Character Seems America Quality Building Forgiving Block Telling The Truth Building Blocks

Author:Mona Charen

“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

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Said Ends Stories Lasts Three Hours Saws Building Thirds Fellows Eight The End Of The Day Feel Better Bricks Cathedrals Irritated Making A Living Bricklayers

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.”

“Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.”

Firsts Whole Remember Worst Building Weakness Critics Crafts Blueprints

Author:Tobsha Learner

“On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.”

Firsts My Own Teaching Building Classroom

Author:Tim Gunn

“Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.”

Firsts Stills Law Purpose Religious Modern Building Taxes Models Institutions Unions Assumption Surround Casting Inheritance Advancement Implications Modern Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.”

Ifs World Want Feels Firsts Humans Mean Real Law Fantasy This World Building Elements Available Physics Explanation Gravity Behaviour Laws Of Physics Human Behaviour

Author:Trudi Canavan

“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Firsts States Nations United Powerful Fiction United States Teaching Building Tools Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Initials Very Powerful Philippines Nation Building Teaching History

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.”

Firsts Kind Littles Two Stories Together Remember Guy House Wife Wonderful Building Hollywood Series Backgrounds Staying Laughed Mike

Author:Peter Tork

“I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.”

Ifs Firsts Hard Design Building Development Built Core Platforms Hobbies Geek Website Hard Core Web Design

Author:Matt Mickiewicz

“Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Long Government Strong Cases Worst Building Taxes Raises Obvious Canada Scenarios Unstable Worst Case Scenario

Author:Stephen Harper

“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”

Thinking Firsts May Doe Wish Greater Design Humility Building Mass Foundation Deeper Height Fabric Constructs

Author:Saint Augustine

“Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.”

Mind Firsts Made Nations Share Building Understood Fortune International Brands Hotel Aggressive Platforms Railroads Titans

Book:The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

Source: The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

“I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Whole Strong President Building Addresses Continents Historic Summit Kenya Us President Ethiopia Strong Relationship

Author:Barack Obama

“Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.”

Knows Firsts Book Would Be Fighting Hurt Building Tough Fingers Strings Metals It Hurts Building Up

Author:Joan Jett

“When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.”

Needs Firsts Able Study Figures Building Type Tables Moved Visuals Toys Leafs Furniture Slides Learners

Author:Jeremiah Brent

“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.”

“Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings

“Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.”

Ifs Firsts Children Stories Lines Building Raising Children Skyscraper Tilt

Author:Jim Bishop

“If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.”

Ifs Firsts Fall Deals Car Building Survival Concern Peril Horns

Book:Madwand

Source: Madwand

“I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.”

Firsts Sometimes Strong Rooms Novel Doors Building Architecture Very Strong

Author:Nicole Krauss

“The White House - now shares the same name as the new government center in Moscow. The name originally comes from Egypt. The White and Red Houses of the late first dynasty were departments that officiated for the will of pharaoh. The second most important state building in Egypt was the treasury. It was known as Per Hetch, meaning "White House."”

Firsts Important States Government House Names White Known Share Building Late Red Department White House Egypt Treasury Moscow Dynasty New Government Pharaohs

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.”

Years Firsts Long Made Building Products Long Time Customers Acquisition Stripes

Author:John Collison

“But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

Men Firsts Wells Art Happens Can Do Cases Virtue Player Building Exercise Brave Builder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Ends Order Journey Building Starting Tales Fairy Halls Fairy Tale Composition Helsinki

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.”

Years Firsts Lasts Five Produce Building Intuition Five Years Reflecting Last Five Years

Author:David Adjaye

“We didn't push it down people's throats...One turned into three in a short period of time. I built the first one and...one day someone walked in and said "You know, I really like the design on this. Who built that?" I said "I did." He goes "Well, would you be interested in building me one?" I went "Yeah, I'll do that."”

People Knows Firsts Wells Said Three Design Building Periods One Day Built Yeah Throat

Author:Drew Waters

“I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Art Said States Building Painting Products Finals Definitions Valuable Finished Preserves Chairs Works Of Art State Of Mind Best Work Roger

Author:Alistair Cooke

“A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.”

“Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.”

Firsts Self Steps Acceptance Building First Steps Unconditional Unconditional Acceptance Positive Self Positive Self Image

Author:Nido R Qubein

“In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.”

World Firsts Littles Fiction Building Science Fiction Science Fiction Movie

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.”

“The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.”

People Firsts Together Students Building Moon Wounds Experiments Rockets Jet Labs Aircraft Firing Spacecraft Propulsion Pasadena

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.”

Firsts Young Chance Wife Building Photography First Time Cameras My Wife Paris Architect Lenses

Author:Sebastiao Salgado

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