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“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.”

Want Firsts Ends Lasts Song Order Records Journey Sticks Maps Listeners Sequencing

Author:Dave Grohl

“It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.”

Years Firsts Play Home Today Lasts Winning Difficult Steps Last Year Right Direction Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Gustavo Kuerten

“A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”

Firsts Lasts Lines Leader Criticism Recognition

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.”

World Want Firsts Shows Lasts

Book:What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

Source: What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Dying Instant Reborn

Author:Jonathan Weiner

“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”

Should Writing Firsts Two School Lasts Voice Four Minutes Terrible Drama Seven My Best Friend Gigs Gags

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.”

Firsts Doe Lasts Demand Overcoming Philosopher Timeless Firsts And Lasts

Book:Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”

Firsts Humans Long Ideas Hands Lasts Values Common Issues Resources Advantage Tasks Common Sense Endeavor Capitalist Multitudes Long Life Idealist Devotee Firsts And Lasts

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.”

Ifs World Firsts Made Stills Two States Lasts Fighting Names Energy Party Movement Personality First Time Innovation Hot Possession Divides Pauses Conservatism

Book:Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

“The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.”

Giving Firsts Lasts Spirit Next Church Liberty Inspire Good Man Impart Spirit Of God Present Time God First

Book:The Secret of Success in the Christian Life

Source: The Secret of Success in the Christian Life

“The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.”

Years Firsts Lasts Mankind Youth Miserable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".”

World Firsts Humans Seems Christian Lasts Certain Values Term Religious Results Moral Century Elements Ideals Sight Stress Tendencies Moral Values Incline

Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.”

Firsts Different Ends Stories Lasts Hundred Paragraph Different Directions

Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”

World Firsts May Two Lasts Position Nobility Complement

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.”

Firsts Lasts Composing

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”

Firsts Long Lasts Youth Instinct Intellect Surrender Skepticism Nobility Fidelity Discretion Shameful Chastity Ripeness

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word

“I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.”

People Firsts Lasts Remember Moving Night Crazy Hair Aids Last Time Wonderland Nocturnal Mashups

Author:Kaskade

“God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.”

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.”

World Firsts May I Can Feelings Lasts Remember Praying Degrees Glory Stranger Thread Consistency I Pray Homo Sapiens Desolation

Book:The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.”

Firsts Wells Lasts Loses First Time Miserable Orpheus

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

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