“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?” FirstsGoalStepsGoneProgressFirst Steps Author:Michael Gerber
“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.” FirstsLastsDeathGoneDyingYouthHairThousandDiedGravesTeethDustOdd Author:Lord Byron
“We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.” WantFirstsHumansYoungNextSocialResponsibilityCasesGoneDoorsBabyFemaleInstinctNeighborBrutalSocial ResponsibilityHostileJuicyNext Door NeighborsFirst Baby Author:Jane Goodall
“Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.” WorldWayFirstsPersonsLongHas BeensBookCharacterViewsDealsGoneIssuesInformationThirdsStrategyPoint Of ViewDescriptionMultipleCould Have BeenGeographyFirst PersonImpartNarratorsOmniscientThird Person Author:Neal Stephenson
“When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.” FirstsLittlesPersonsIdeasWholeNextBitsProcessGoneEasierLittle BitPagesUniversalNo IdeaDocumentsPursued Author:DJ Shadow
“If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.” IfsFirstsTwoStatesHappensGoneWeekAuthorityDoctorsSickReportsSicknessAssociatesTwo Weeks Author:Marion Nestle
“I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.” FeelsFirstsBookFilmGoneConnectedContractsTwilightTwilight Movie Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsKindStillsI CanJobsRememberGuySecretGoneGrowingMovementComfortableToughWindowDefinitionsNervousRemember WhenMisconceptionStigmaChapelTough Guy Author:Matt Cullen
“It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.” IfsKnowsFirstsRealPastGoneExcitingPursuitChanging Your LifeReal Truth Author:Ben Bradlee
“I feel like I've gone through stages with the industry; when I first started showing it was during the time of the recession, the economical situation meant fashion was suffering. But now the fashion business is back and booming, and I think it just encourages me to constantly set myself bigger and bigger challenges and reach new goals.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsSufferingGoalChallengesSituationGoneStageFashionIndustryBiggerRecessionsNew GoalFashion Business Author:Roksanda Ilincic
“I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.” ShouldFirstsHas BeensMadeTwoMistakeGoneCoupleShould HaveAlbumsRehabVictoria Author:Robbie Williams
“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.” WorldFirstsKindIdeasWarTodayChristianSinMoralChristianityGoneInfluenceCenturyPeriodsLateRootsImprovementWar Of The WorldsEnlightenedAbandonedUnnecessaryStereotypeTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyHangoverProtestantismFirst World War Author:Alister E. McGrath
“And that first screening was overwhelming. You were there. People applauded when the title card comes in; there's a big "gasp moment" partway through the film. It couldn't have gone better, and it was very surreal.” PeopleFirstsMomentsBigsFilmGoneCardsTitlesOverwhelmingSurrealScreening Author:James Ponsoldt
“We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes.” WayMindFirstsI CanPainPastFeltHoursGoneMinutesFinePicksEmbraceReactionsBrokeLive Your LifeCan't ChangeChanging Your MindBroke Up Author:Dana Gould
“My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.” FirstsBelieveBookEndsGoneTroubleFindingsPhotographReactionsWowSpiralsJetty Author:Vik Muniz
“'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.” FirstsGoneTelevisionFirst TimeTubesAsylums Author:Jools Holland
“I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.” PeopleWantFeelsFirstsWellsLooksHomeBeautifulGonePaintingComing HomeFamily And FriendsMadridBeautiful Paintings Author:George Clooney
“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.” MenYearsFirstsI CanAgeGoneYouthEmotionalDramaSceneLogicInvestmentNotionTimingConnectingEmotional Investment Author:Tom Courtenay
“I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.” WorldFirstsI CanDreamLinesGoneModelsTransformedInsectsTranslationsUneasyMetamorphosisCockroachesBeetles Author:Laurie Foos
“Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.” FirstsGoneGratitudeLaughterEternityReliefPerformersEmperorSids Author:Ben Stein
“'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.” ThinkingShouldFirstsBigsGoneHappenedShould HaveSellsRewardsFinanceBrandsCorporateSurvivorMacsSponsorsCoca ColaBig Mac Author:Mark Burnett
“If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information.” IfsKnowsNeedsFirstsI CanAsksHalfCasesGoneMinutesInformationPatientReviewsCollectingQuestionnairesCollecting Information Author:William Davis
“When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.” FirstsWarCountryWantedSchoolPresidentGoneFinishedGraduatesGraduate SchoolGulf War Author:Lily King
“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksNextGoneMinutesHavensChangedGiving UpFirst TimeStudiosPianoThrill Author:Elton John
“Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.” IfsFirstsTwoFeelingsFilmStuffHoursGoneTelevisionTvsAmountNormalShotsEnormousShootingLength Author:Richard Masur
“I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.” FirstsMomentsMemoriesGoneStagePerformancesFirst LoveLive In The Moment Author:Ruthie Henshall
“When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStoriesGoneTrumpCallingProjectsPaidMailHeartbreakingContractor Author:Marco Rubio
“I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.” YearsFirstsImportantMomentsWould BeAgeWantedRememberHouseFeltCausesWaitingNaturalSecretGoneStageSixFirst TimeWindowThat MomentSix Year Olds Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.” FirstsMeanWholeSongThreeHouseHoursGoneRecordsConcernedAbsolutesDrinkingSpendingCoffeeFree TimeDrinking Coffee Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.” YearsFirstsLastsGoneBabyAlbumsFatsExposed Author:Lykke Li