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“What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.”

Firsts Important Helping Left Situation Management Clean Workers Awful Teamwork Emergencies

Author:Joe Lhota

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Years Firsts Stills Helping Shows Lines Acting Four Advice Tvs Ten Tough Hollywood Coaching Tv Shows Movie Sets

Author:Michael Pena

“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.”

Firsts Self Helping Evil Teach Higher Battle Gains Shining Sufi Higher Self Evil Within

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”

Firsts Has Beens Helping Political Study Behavior Gender Gaps Legendary Gender Gap

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Helping Feelings Would Be Sports Politician If I Could Fulfilling Scotland

Author:Gordon Strachan

“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.”

Way Firsts Wells I Can Helping Song Water Can Do Simple Areas Starting Rap Helpful Rap Song

Author:Jay-Z

“Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.”

Firsts Helping Kids School Life Is Clear I Realized Meant To Be

Author:Greg Mortenson

“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“If your life is in disarray and you feel uncomfortable and unworthy to pray because you are not clean, don't worry. He already knows about all of that. He is waiting for you to kneel in humility and take the first few steps. Pray for strength. Pray for others to be led to support you and guide you and lift you. Pray that the love of the Savior will pour into your heart. Pray that the miracle of the Atonement will bring forgiveness because you are willing to change. I know that those prayers will be answered, for God loves you. His Son gave his life for you. I know they will help you.”

“We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.”

Firsts Helping Stories Alive Staying Alive Helping Each Other

Author:Marie Howe

“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”

Firsts Helping Process Struggle Worst Cold Let Me Hot Drinking Warm Alcohol Weather Things To Do Worst Things Soup Drinking Alcohol Cold Heart Cold Weather Hot Soup

Author:Morgan Freeman

“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”

Source: The Idea of Justice

“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

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.”

Firsts Helping Evil Lord Special Humility Calling Succeed Saved Temptation Good And Evil Tempted Apostles Messengers Ambassadors

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.”

Want Firsts Helping Beautiful Grows Beauty Thoughts Of You

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”

Ifs Want Firsts Helping Able Understanding Effects Painting Fats Caress Courtesans

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.”

Firsts Helping Steps Positive Where You Are First Steps

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

Firsts Self Helping Shows Hands Able Rights Generations Share Self Help Willing Ready Citizens Capacity Weight Regard Mere Republic Passengers Good Citizen Sturdy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.”

Firsts Children Helping School Jobs Nations Numbers Education Groups Decided Burden Income Serving Lowest School System

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.”

Ifs World Want Inspirational Trying Firsts Helping Effects Bigger Impact Our Family Changing The World

Book:Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”

Writing Firsts Made Book Helping House Effort Cold Conscious Rivers Impact Cypresses

Author:Michael Koryta

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.”

Ifs Giving Mind Firsts Helping Emotion Opinion Birth Affection Intimate Inseparable Giving Birth

Author:Paul Valery

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?”

People Feels Firsts Helping Asks Answers Asking Annoying Gathering First Date Family Gathering

Author:Liz Tuccillo

“Building an Effective Women's Ministry is a brand new book from Harvest House Publishers. Sharon Jaynes, vice president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, is the author. This book has planning helps for beginning and maintaining your women's ministries plus ideas for programs and special events. You know which section I turned to first, don't you? That's right. The idea section. Sharon has some good ideas. Great cover and helpful contents!!!”

“The separation of families to me is very close to my heart because we lived that as immigrants. I strongly feel that we all connected, and having felt people's love and support first-hand through difficult moments in my life, makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. I am privileged to help in some way, and I will always take that opportunity.”

“Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.”

Men Firsts Helping Able Land Fishes Thrown

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.”

“By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.”

“There is one pressing need, we think, to help us compete, and that is the need to define our season, .. That relates to, first of all, creating a real season, which would include a year-long competition and a dramatic finish to that competition.”

Thinking Needs Years Firsts Long Real Helping Creating Seasons Competition Relate Dramatic

Author:Tim Finchem

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

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Author:Eric Liu

“SDN is a major shift in the networking industry. At Juniper, we think the impact of SDN will be much broader than others have suggested. It will redefine networking and create new winners and losers. We're embracing SDN with clearly defined principles, a four-step roadmap to help customers adopt SDN within their business, and the networking industry's first comprehensive software-centric business model. We're incredibly excited about the value that SDN will deliver to our customers and are committed to leading the industry through this transition.”

“The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)”

Knows Firsts Humans Helping Talking History Mystery Humour Experts Canada Nobody Knows

Author:Eric Nicol

“We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.”

Firsts Helping Economy Competition

Author:Kenneth Lay

“All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.”

“All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.”

Ifs World Firsts Stills Soul Helping Strong Healing Hell Return Lucky Trapped Go To Hell

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.”

“Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.”

Ifs Needs Writing Firsts Helping Study Products Reader Letters Reactions Relate Phases

Book:Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay

Source: Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay

“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.”

Firsts Book Different Helping Directors Meetings Former Copies Conspiracy Cia Ideological Assassination Assassins Parameters Forthcoming Warren Commission

Author:Peter Dale Scott

“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”

Ifs Writing Years Firsts States Helping Cases Novel Week Worst Months Obnoxious

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.”

Firsts Helping South Selfishness Help Me

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In a crisis, give help first and then advice.”

Giving Firsts Helping Reality Advice Crisis

Author:Aesop

“I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.”

“Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais