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“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

Trying Firsts Body Running Morning Minutes Figures Happenings

“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”

Knows Firsts Figures Behavior Meetings

Author:Arthur Rock

“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.”

World Firsts Artist Feet Figures Majors First Time Performances Corners Halls Concerts Avenues Carnegie Carnegie Hall Tchaikovsky

Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

Feels Should Trying Firsts Wells Two Book Real Reading Enjoy Morning Figures Months Businessman Kindles Two Months

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.”

Firsts Wonder Figures Mainstream Grain Subversive

Author:Tony D'Souza

“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.”

People Firsts Littles Stills Sometimes Lines Figures Tables Fingers Warm Dinner Bread Sculpture Bourgeois Dinner Table Dough Modelling Bickering French Bread

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.”

Firsts Looks Feelings Humanity Seeing Air Figures Particular First Time Shoes Stranger Suits Pins Terminal

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.”

Way Years Firsts Play Kids Used Records Figures Lessons Musician Red Years Ago Ears Jazz Notes My Favorite Jazz Music Pianist Jazz Musician Garlands

Author:Donald Fagen

“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

“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.”

Thinking Firsts Ends Stories Perfect Figures Scene Mathematics Finals I Realized Throwing

Author:Brit Marling

“I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.”

People Mind Firsts Book Dying Havens Figures This Life Screws Screwed Up Screw Ups

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.”

Knows Trying Firsts Reason Might President Behinds Figures Office Concern Vices Obsession Saddam Hussein President Bush Psychiatrist Vice President

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

People Knows Way Firsts Mean Said Two Use Law Three Father Taken Doubt Figures Fields Habit Abuse Obvious Observation Speakers Quotations Toil Remarks When In Doubt Wilde Bernard Shaw Use And Abuse

Author:Nigel Rees

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”

Firsts Mean House Figures Cost Models Draws Rate Architecture Plot Surveys

Author:William Shakespeare

“Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.”

Firsts Social Sports Black Modern Figures South Advertising Stigma

Author:Jesse Owens

“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”

Firsts Government Might Figures Clothes Happenings Affair Definitions Obvious Gambling Exposed Emperor Authoritarian Government

Author:Calvin Ayre

“I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune”

Thinking Trying Mind Firsts Problem Wanted Remember Heard Figures Mouths Theme Tunes Exes Alex Of My Mind Humming Whistling

Author:Warren Spector

“It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.”

Ifs Firsts Jesus Individual Christ Atheism Century Figures Historical Positive Atheism Uncles Constructs Theologian Symbolic Theological Synthetic Nazareth Uncle Sam

Author:Robert M. Price

“My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.”

Ifs Firsts Careers Pieces Advice Figures Career Advice Gifting

Author:Michelle Singletary

“There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.”

Knows Firsts Humans Light Beautiful Christ Common Generations Figures Divine All Things Shining Scripture Visible Epiphany

Author:Herman Melville

“That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Thinking Years Firsts Persons Black Figures Prove Our Society First Person Congressman Melanin

Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.”

Firsts Stills Religion Jesus Figures Example Argument Alternatives Premises Legendary

Author:William Lane Craig

“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.”

Thinking Way Trying Firsts School Saws Figures Periods High School First Time Helpful Avenues Spoken Word Nucleus

Author:Phil Kay

“Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.”

Needs Firsts Sex Blood Figures Keys Drug Features Saturday Cult Friday Gore Puppets Screening Manson Avalon Sex Drugs

Author:John Roecker

“I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.”

Writing Trying Firsts Persons Figures Journalist Gardener First Person Carnivores

Author:Michael Pollan

“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.”

“Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.”

Way Trying Mind Firsts Littles Ends Bits Results Written Figures Approach Little Bit Boundaries Songwriting End Results Gatekeepers

Author:Feist

“In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.”

Firsts Wells Audience Heard Figures Drink Authority First Time Wine Cups Meant To Be Globes

Author:Neil MacGregor

“I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.”

Thinking Needs Trying Firsts Figures Scripts

Author:Scot Armstrong

“A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.”

Firsts Believe May Children Stories Literature Figures Changed Strange Ready Fairy Helpful Companion Threatening Desirable Menace Children's Literature Fairy Stories

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.”

Firsts Christian Religious Figures Fine Amendments Offensive Stamps First Amendment Jars Suspended Subsidies

Author:Don Feder

“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Matter Lost Strong Loss Half Plans Honest Figures Failure Pride Battle Program Weak Perseverance Starting Connected Spots Shortcomings Appraisal Strong Faith Weak Spots

Author:Sue Sanders

“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”

Firsts Philosophy Sea Figures Position Philosophical Boat Staying Naturalism Vantage Point Groundwork

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.”

Way Firsts Born Figures Daughter New Ways

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“I saw him (Barry Bonds) when he first broke in. He was a scrawny, skinny, 185-pound guy that had great talent. And then he turned himself into a freakin' power hitter with, what, 245, 250 pounds, and his head got twice the size. So, you know, you figure it out. I know he likes to go to the gym. We all like to go to the gym. You just don't get that big.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Guy Saws Talent Figures Size Likes Broke Pounds Gym Skinny Great Talent

Author:Gary Carter

“There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.”

Firsts Emotion Known Figures Discovery First Time Familiar Encounters Paradox Rereading Rediscovery

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.”

Ifs Firsts May Ends Action Past Moving Order President Figures Example Arms Amount Infinite Mirrors Wave Instant Twins Observing Mirroring

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“With my employees, if something is wrong and we can figure it out, okay, otherwise goodbye. Your employees are part of your success, so you have to share that, but the guests and the atmosphere have to be happy first.”

Ifs Firsts Share Figures Okay Atmosphere Employee Goodbye Guests

Author:Julie King

“I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Kind Age Artist Song Know How Figures Understood Dresses Who You Are Priorities Songwriting Clothings

Author:Lights

“When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.”

Ifs Knows Trying Firsts Made I Can Helping Able Jobs Mistake Missing Figures Ems Wire Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Billy Joel

“When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.”

Firsts Together Share Figures Who You Are Mask Mature Oxygen Life Together

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!”

Ifs Trying Firsts Looks May Self Night Asks Stars Sides Steps Study Figures Planets Surprise Look Up

Author:Will Young

“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.”

People Trying Years Firsts Persons Minutes Figures Gains First Time Spread Witness Momentum

Author:Darren Criss

“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

“Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.”

Giving Firsts Support Figures New York Give Me Mayors Public Figures

Author:Ryan White

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