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“If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Character Stories Challenges Deals Directors Criteria

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.”

Firsts Kind I Can Important Spiritual Challenges Support Emotional Painful Divorce Recommendations Emotional Support Going Through Divorce

Author:Alana Stewart

“Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth”

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Author:Ala Bashir

“Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.”

Firsts Opportunity Challenges Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Extraordinary

Author:Hal Elrod

“Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.”

Firsts Persons Sometimes Community Challenges Differences Racism Thirds Rounds Making A Difference Thrive Fourth Questioning Speaking Up Anti Racism

Author:Paul Kivel

“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”

Years Firsts Hard Given Challenges Decision Growing Fronts Promise Shapes Green Edges Horizon Discovering Hard Things

Author:Howard Thurman

“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.”

Firsts Two Lasts Turns Three Challenges Careers Middle Victory Corners Finished Broke Flags June Tunnels Lanes Top 10 Checkered

Author:Tony Stewart

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”

Knows Firsts Littles Faces Certain Next Term Loses Challenges Amount Congress Campaigns Administration Motive Suspects Voters Identification

Author:Roy Blunt

“Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.”

Firsts Humans Mean Values Challenges Technology Figures Human Values

Author:Sherry Turkle

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”

“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

Feels Firsts May Fall Speak Force Social Challenges Behinds Roles Movement Citizens Politician Forgotten Congress Compromise Protest Legislators Social Movements

Author:Howard Zinn

“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.”

“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”

Needs Firsts Problem Universe Games Sides Challenges Generations Serious Flow Rose Occasions These Days Awake Psychics Veins Numb Whining Stop Whining

Author:Marianne Williamson

“This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.”

Years Firsts Play Girl Sound Challenges Endeavor Macho

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.”

“I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.”

Knows Men Firsts Hands Challenges Known Products Mom Fit Busy Schedules Elixir Busy Schedules

Author:Eva LaRue

“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.”

Want Firsts Book Problem Care Faces Difficult Challenges Interesting Audience Don't Care Difficult Challenges

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.”

People Knows Men Way Want Giving Firsts Kind Ends Play Whole Night Guy Fun Sports Challenges Pride Ego Giving Up Beats Defense Score Coming Out Every Night Offense Back When

Author:Allen Iverson

“One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.”

People Firsts Hard Challenges Economy Computer Sells Decades Personal Computers

Author:Steve Case

“I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.”

Thinking Want Firsts Real Play Given Challenges Responsibility Scary Real Life

Author:Liya Kebede

“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

“Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.”

Way Mind Firsts Different Challenges Behinds Records All Time Nfl Halls Quarterback Ballots Mind Set Challenge Yourself Consecutive Different Minds

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.”

Trying Firsts Shows Running Challenges Stage Music Is Tasks Notes Focused Routine Kansas

Author:Phil Ehart

“Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.”

Firsts Humanity Challenges Century Twenties Climate Climate Change

Author:Angela Merkel

“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.”

Firsts Littles Use Eye Able Mother Bits Voice Challenges Acting Taught Little Bit Aspect My Family Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Keith Coogan

“My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.”

Firsts Challenges Novel

Author:Vikas Swarup

“I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.”

Firsts Mean Doe Two Different Today Past Challenges Lessons Mindset Everest

Author:Lewis Gordon

“Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.”

People Firsts Political Challenges Party Willing Republican Constitution Political Parties Allegiance

Author:Matt Salmon

“I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.”

Firsts Challenges Generations Students College Color College Students

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.'”

Firsts Faces Challenges Opinion Thirds Independent Fearless

Book:Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles

Source: Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles

“At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.”

Needs Firsts Children Challenges Century Ready Industry Twenties Our Children Enterprise 21st Century

Author:Jim Rohn

“Getting back into shape [after bringing twing] was challenging, like it is for anybody who has a baby. The first few pounds drop off really fast. And then you're like stuck with those last 10 to 20 pounds, let's say, and then you've really got to get disciplined.”

Firsts Lasts Challenges Baby Shapes Stuck Pounds

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.”

“During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.”

“I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.”

People Firsts Made Use Hands Challenges Amount Enormous Faculty Disability Sensitivity People With Disabilities

Author:William J. Clinton

“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.”

“We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”

Way Needs Firsts Heart Self Together Faces Spiritual Spirituality Challenges Courage Century Enlightenment Concern Twenties Yearning

Author:Andrew Cohen

“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.”

Firsts Kind Book Form Felt Challenges Responsibility Particular Periods Creating My Family Artistic Slums Creating Something

Author:Frank McCourt

“Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it's the script first and whether it's a character that you think you can do.”

Thinking Want Firsts Character Stories Can Do Challenges Interesting Directors Scripts Interesting Stories

Author:Eric Bana

“It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.”

Firsts Character Challenges First Time Guitar Accents August Conducting

Author:Freddie Highmore

“I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.”

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Author:Julianne Moore

“"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.”

Way Firsts Stories Challenges Hero First Love Guarded

Author:Travis Mathews

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

Firsts Persons Self Challenges Growing Up Growing Century Planets Machines Twenties Definitions Acquire Organisms Transcendent

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."”

Men Firsts Doe Can Do Challenges Decision Position Weakness Areas Bases Encounters Executives Staffing

Author:Peter Drucker

“I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.”

Firsts Country States Reason Whole Challenges Growing Up Growing Produce Football Fit Demand Training Athlete Whole Life Enjoyed Division Navy Seals Montana Navy Seal

Author:Ryan Zinke

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