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“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

Knows Firsts Seems Would Be America Nations Perfect Leader Class Imagine Students College Citizens Creating Notion Absurd Supposed To Be Sat Diverse Composition Filling

Author:Eric Liu

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

Needs Firsts Humans Soul Hard Body Can Do Space Perfect Prove Computer Machines Unlimited Silicon Physical Body Simulation Disk

Author:Frank J. Tipler

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Stories Use Term Perfect Depends Scripts Definitions Time Travel

Author:Rian Johnson

“In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.”

Firsts Humans Law Perfect Construction Execution Remarks

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.”

Thinking Firsts Ends Stories Perfect Figures Scene Mathematics Finals I Realized Throwing

Author:Brit Marling

“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

Knows Firsts Light Beautiful Lying Perfect Morning Sun Woods Lovely Lakes Salt Noon Believable

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.”

Way Firsts Kind Sometimes Hard Might Song Order Easy Perfect Special Easier Findings Verses Chorus

Author:David First

“It was in France that I first learned about food. And that even the selection of a perfect pear, a ripe piece of Brie, the freshest butter, the highest quality cream were as important as how the dish you were going to be served was actually cooked.”

Firsts Important Perfect Quality Pieces Highest France Dishes Cream Selection Ripe Pears Brie

Author:Robert Carrier

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.”

Firsts Children Persons Soul Perfect Teach Authority Slavery Meat Requirements Unjust Submission Respectable Grinder Small Person

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.”

Feels Firsts Doe Perfect Emotion Quality Objects Elements Sight Simplicity Perfect Beauty

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us.”

Ifs Men Should Firsts Made Said Stills Problem Perfect Clear Streets Theory Demand Complicated Made It Mathematical Ease Mathematician Comprehension Clearness Mathematical Problems

Author:David Hilbert

“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.”

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Author:Adam Rapp

“This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.”

Firsts Would Be Earth Lasts Perfect Tree Special Rocks Ought Equal Spring Miracle Died Winter Snow Autumn Pace Moss

Author:Jean Liedloff

“If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”

“Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.”

Firsts Perfect First Time Code

Author:Linus Torvalds

“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source: Trout Fishing

“A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Persons Ideas Walks Perfect Communicate One Time Good Ideas One On One First Date Perfect Date

Author:Selena Gomez

“I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing songs and playing, but there was something about going in and capturing it that felt very Zen and perfect for me. A light switch went on and I just realized that's where my musical capacity was the most suited. I just followed on blind faith that that was like a calling for me.”

Writing Years Firsts I Can Moments Light Song Felt Perfect Calling Band Capacity Blind Musical Enjoyed Writing Songs Blind Faith Just Realized Perfect For Me

Author:John Congleton

“The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.”

World Firsts Perfect Built Stones Corners Temples Adam Pillars A Perfect World

Book:The poetical works of N.P. Willis

Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis

“The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.”

People Firsts Has Beens Seems Age Process Perfect Talking Too Much Growing Drink Aging Strikes Instance Mechanism Listeners Signals Old People Restless Aging Process Talking Too Much

Author:Barbara Walters

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.”

Giving Firsts Persons Purpose Strong Given Perfect Numbers Break Circles Permanent Damage Wheels Shock Spokes Surprising Bumps Sustaining Meaning Life Rims Hub

Author:Oveta Culp Hobby

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”

World Firsts Philosophy Reality Form Perfect Pure Essence Sorry Including Lovely Planes Pope Plato Mud Transcendent Muddy

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.”

Men Firsts Done Facts Seems Happiness Causes Perfect Principles Divine Agree Starting Sake Honorable Honored Starting Point

Author:Aristotle

“When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.”

People Writing Firsts Kind Ideas Shows Perfect Ready First Time Sentences Chapters Paragraph

Author:Irvine Welsh

“A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.”

Should Firsts Found Perfect Modern Museums Quests Apartment Modern Life Sofas Metropolitan

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what we now know as science] has completely merged with methodological revelation [or totally known mystical knowledge in which every aspect of the occult has been overcome]. A true tradition has no occult or hidden phases left in its process. The creators and the audience are in perfect harmony.”

“There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Spiritual Perfect Development Advantage Insight Aids Karma Planes Faculty Immense Deceived Acquaintance Spiritual Development Spiritual Strength Spiritual Insight

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.”

Feels Firsts Kind Self States Seems Together Lasts Perfect Return Exercise Gains Advantage Senses Perceive Contemplation Honey Bees Conquest Persevere Hives

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.”

Knows Firsts Perfect Trouble Easier First Time Finished Flying Weather Pilots

Author:Frank Wead

“Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'”

Writing Firsts Difficult President Perfect Collections Effortless Reckoning

Author:Jimmy Carter

“That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you. But it won't listen to any of it. Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.”

Want Trying Firsts Perfect Plans Love You Fit Maps Schedules

Author:Holly Smale

“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”

Writing Firsts Today White Perfect Rooms Office Tough Paid Safety Meetings Missions Each Day Aviation Competent Admission Blackboard

Author:Gene Kranz

“I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.”

Firsts Wanted Perfect Tvs Dad Six Seven My Dad Comedian Hardy Laurels Perfect Days Laurel And Hardy

Author:Will Smith

“I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Play Lasts Perfect Levels Fit Balls Eras Categories Cricket Marvellous Cricketers Playing Cricket

Author:Viv Richards

“The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.”

“That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.”

Knows World Firsts Happens Wanted Passion Perfect Mistake Vision Enemy First Time Like Me

Author:Les Brown

“It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Stories Would Be Wanted Perfect Cutting Happened Standing Aliens France Long Way Very Romantic Long Story

Author:Ridley Scott

“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Wells Looks Kind Important Shows Together Courses Perfect Style Tvs Elements Performances What If Performers Tv Shows Slick Perfect Marriage

Author:Edgar Wright

“The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.”

World Firsts Important Moving Easy Prayer Perfect Steps Car Harder Our World First Steps Just Do It Steers Right Direction

Author:Peter Kreeft

“My first workout starts at 9:00 a.m. every morning. I'm in the gym from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We do strength conditioning, stretching, pretty intense workouts in the morning. We go back in the gym at 1:00 p.m. and train until 5:00 p.m. It's all routines, repetition, doing the same skills over and over again, trying to polish and perfect everything. I head home, eat dinner, spend some time with my wife and start over the next day. I train about six days per week.”

Trying Firsts Home Next Perfect Morning Wife Week Skills Six Train Dinner My Wife Intense Gym Every Morning Repetition Next Day Workout Polish Starting Over Conditioning Stretching

Author:Jonathan Horton

“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Doe Enough Bigs Speak Language Perfect Numbers Mystery Modern Prove Absolutes Infinite Mathematics Remains Series Size Infinity

Author:Sara Maitland

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