“My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.” FirstsJobsLostNew YorkTasteIceHatedFriendlyUniformsCreamColleaguesIce CreamAlbany Author:Gregory Maguire
“We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.” FirstsPurposeLostTermSituationCivilizationSittingDeeperHotelAirportsShort TermAlaskaAtheisticHong KongDeeper Meaning Author:Vaclav Havel
“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.” IfsKnowsFirstsThreeLostAudienceMinutesHavensTheatre Author:Om Puri
“I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.” ThinkingFirstsLostParentWaterGenerationsTaughtFirst TimeForgottenHolidayNew ThingsShellsNew GenerationGranddaughter Author:Carine Roitfeld
“For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.” PeopleWritingFirstsLostSleepWritten Author:Andrew Luck
“I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.” YearsFirstsAgeWantedYoungLostCommunityActingSawsTheaterProfessionYoung AgeIndianaArkRaiders Author:Guy Wilson
“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksEndsWholeRememberYoungLostForgetStepsFiveWonderfulFirst TimeInternationalAthleteTrackBritishScalesHorribleFive YearsHotelFirst StepsLaddersLuggage Author:Jill Douglas
“Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.” KnowsFirstsFeelingsHumanityOrderFatherLostWaitingChristCompassionStepsShareLove YouPrayingStrangerGod LoveHeavenlyFirst StepsEvangelismHeavenly Father Book:Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
“There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.” KnowsYearsFirstsLostFeltBirthCouplePeriodsMovedSingersMeant To BeNashvilleWere Meant To Be Author:Faith Hill
“This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.” PeopleMenFirstsDifferentThreeLostNumbersParticularCircumstancesCapableConsequenceMachinesIncreaseSpeciesInventionPassingPassingsSavingPerformingLabourDivisionOne ManQuantityFacilitateOwingWorkmenDexterity Book:The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master