Home / Topics / Firsts Quotes

Firsts Quotes

Browse 33259 quotes about Firsts.

Firsts Quotes

“Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.”

Firsts Dream Winning Masters Becoming Majors Males Championship Dreams Come True

Author:Mike Weir

“The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?”

Ifs Want Firsts Success Ability Secret Steps Car Masters Fit Everyday Bags Gym First Steps Packs Secret To Success Physically Fit

Author:Hal Elrod

“He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.”

Firsts Masters Disaster Pilgrim Discouragement Constancy Valiant

Author:John Buchan

“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”

Giving Firsts May Art Might Interesting Masters Insight Good Writers

Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.”

Years Firsts Christian Secret Christianity Mystery Masters Succeed Luck Collections Assistants Couture Dior Haute Couture

Author:Christian Dior

“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.”

Firsts Art Character Light Eye Turns Objects Color Masters Degrees Highest Mark Regard Excellence Shade Strokes

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

“The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.”

Firsts Masters Sight Artistic Turning Points Artistic Life Degas

Book:Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

Source: Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”

Firsts Two Tree Painting Masters Shadow Bless Sunlight

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.”

Firsts Mean Father Masters Founders Eloquence Chaucer

Author:William Caxton

“It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.”

Firsts Seems Wish Painting Masters More Time Canvas Coats Destined Dissatisfaction Rework

Author:E. J. Hughes

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.”

Firsts Next Class Gone Masters One Day Dinner Servant Manifestation Serving Next Day Disappearance Classless Society

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”