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“Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.”

Firsts Persons Self Function Contemplation Opposition Superficial First Person Transcendent

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.”

Source: Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

“In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place”

Knows Way Firsts Persons Where You Are First Person Prominent Landmarks

Author:Tracy Kidder

“The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.”

World Firsts Persons Young Grows Emotional Scientist Rewards Landscape Compare Vague World History First Person

Author:Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

“I have an interest in making first-person games.”

Firsts Persons Games Interest First Person

Author:Fumito Ueda

“The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.”

Firsts Persons Book Fall Bits Shapes Falling In Love First Person

Author:Laura Miller

“Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Firsts Persons Sound Mistake Months Organization Good Things Endless Making Mistakes Permission Crap Editing Website November First Person Giving Yourself

Author:Laura Miller

“A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? ... I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Firsts Mean Persons Guy Hate Dies Fighting Individual Break Mouths I Hate Come Up Dues Rings Fighter Worried Related Necks Injury Coming Out First Person Want Him Politically Correct

Author:Frank Mir

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

Inspirational Firsts Persons Remember Hurt Failing Risk Wall Dare Graduation Follow Your Dreams Compass First Person

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“The first person you have to resurrect is yourself”

Firsts Persons First Person

Book:The Tao of Wu

Source: The Tao of Wu

“I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Real Moving Asks Process Answers Shapes Circles Absurd Keep Moving First Person Rough Times

Author:Questlove

“I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Persons Able Used Found Games Easy Revolution Genre First Person Shooter Controllers

Author:Satoru Iwata

“When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.”

Writing Firsts Persons Said War Would Be Novel Feet Cold Pages Down And Sat Vietnam Wet Sheer Vietnam War Sock First Person Psychotherapy Great American Drivel Cold Feet

Author:Karl Marlantes

“Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity”

Firsts Persons Treated Commodity First Person Disposable

Author:Robbie Fowler

“I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.”

Writing Firsts Persons Wanted Interesting First Person

Book:Trilogy: Coins & Coffins: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems

Source: Trilogy: Coins & Coffins: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems

“The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.”

Inspirational Firsts Persons Running Sports Inspiring Inspire Everyday Daily Life Self Motivation Everyday Life First Person

Author:Marc Parent

“Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.”

Writing Firsts Persons Made Form Choices Weapons Consequence Instant Gestures Perfume Ink First Person Dots Courteous Choices Made

Author:Serge Lutens

“It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.”

Writing Firsts Persons Different About Yourself First Person

Author:Doris Lessing

“I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.”

Way Firsts Mean Persons Cities New York New York City First Person I Love New York Mean Love

Author:Joan Didion

“USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.”

Firsts May Persons Long Book Hope Fashion Produce Holy Thirds Decent Customs Reverence First Person Trinity Usage Industrious Conventionality Triads

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Lasts Jesus First Person

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.”

Firsts Persons Seems Asks Impossible Swear First Person Marry Me Swear To God

Author:Minnie Driver

“The first person you lead is you.”

Firsts Persons First Person

Book:Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Source: Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

“Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.”

Firsts Persons Different Stories Fans Effects Football Distance Objectives Urges Speakers Outsiders Angle First Person Apprentice Narrators Football Fan

Author:Yiyun Li

“You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'”

Want Years Firsts Persons Enjoy Like You Filled Disappointment First Person Letdowns

Author:Maya Rudolph

“I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.”

Want Trying Firsts Littles Persons Bits Little Bit New Things Geek First Person Gadgets

Author:Tom Felton

“If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.”

Ifs Should Firsts Persons Belief Religious Love Is Principles Who I Am Trust In God Changing Your Life Commitment To God First Person Intimacy With God Religious Belief Servant Of God God Is Love Persons Love

Author:Shamcey Supsup

“Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.”

Firsts Children Persons Age Strange Masters Reader Originals Certainty Narrative Invitations First Person Marie First Person Narrative

Author:Katharine Weber

“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”

Firsts Persons Whole Pops Occasional Pop Music First Person Intrusion

Author:Brian Eno

“I was the first person to go to university from my family.”

Firsts Persons My Family University First Person

Author:Ellie Goulding

“If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts Persons Figures Masters Serving World History First Person Way To Live

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.”

Firsts Persons Example Fuel Conservation First Person

Author:Veerappa Moily

“I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.”

Firsts Persons Internet Patient Reputation Destroyed Zero First Person

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.”

Firsts Persons Christian Fun First Person

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.”

People Firsts Persons Sometimes Decision Work Out Divorced First Person Personal Decisions

Author:Tiki Barber

“The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Persons Made Soul Your Soul Doomed First Person

Author:Jodi Picoult

“First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.”

Firsts Persons Special Appreciate Initiative First Person

Author:Anuj

“If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.”

Ifs Want Firsts Persons Leader First Person

Author:Mike Scioscia

“I welcome anyone that wants to come into the WWE and try it, because, I was the type of person that was not welcome with open arms. People didn't want me to come in because I was from a Reality background. But I'm the first person that says, bring anybody in.”

People Want Trying Firsts Persons Reality Arms Type Backgrounds Welcome Want Me Wwe First Person Open Arms

Author:The Miz

“Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.”

Way Mind Firsts Persons Different Sometimes Order Games Sound Watches Television Direct First Person

Book:Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life

Source: Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life

“When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!”

Firsts Persons Order Community Wonderful Doors Praying Neighbour First Person Praying To God

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy.”

Firsts Persons Art Philosophy Hands Process Known First Person Adjusting Levers Chiropractic

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years.”

Years Firsts Persons Has Beens Art Principles First Person Basic Principles Chiropractic

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.”

Years Firsts Persons Character Bigs Beautiful Our Lives Car Hair Boxes Grandmother Cartoon My Grandmother First Person Stylish Cartoon Character Big Hair Big Cars

Author:Tom Ford

“The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?”

Firsts Persons Happens Happiness Artist Talking Roots First Person Manic Depressive

Author:Ariel Gore

“I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Young Guy Girl Dating Hot Lists Producers Crafts Plus First Person Quirky Funny Girl

Author:Whitney Cummings

“I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.”

Firsts Humans Persons Body Consciousness Wonderful Evidence Realms Glimpse Human History First Person

Author:Eben Alexander

“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Persons Said Problem Literature Cities No Problem First Person Suburbs Screwed Up Normalcy

Author:Eric Bogosian

“Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.”

Firsts Persons Matter Voice Hearing First Person Narrators

Author:James Lee Burke

“In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.”

Feels Firsts Persons Cases Reader Smart First Person

Author:Patricia Cornwell

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