Best ultimate & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“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

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.”

Firsts Children Ends Events Ready Ultimate Apocalypse Verdict Unveiling

Book:The Animal That Therefore I Am

Source: The Animal That Therefore I Am

“To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.”

Firsts Space Members Ultimate Cosmos Expanding Contracting Disengagement

Book:Star Maker

Source: Star Maker

“The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.”

Firsts Lasts Turns Fun Heaven Felt Support Color Calling Red Ultimate Green Mad Colour Relief Rainbow Orange

Author:Charles Demuth

“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”

“This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.”

Knows Firsts Mean Order Choices Generations Health Consequence Ultimate Currents You Choose Choose Life

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

Giving Firsts Law Causes Differences Economy Effects Birth Habit Consequence Ultimate Institutions Series Investing Enormous Succession Converses

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?”

Ifs Inspirational Firsts Reason Lying Found Religious Doubt Acceptance Depends Ultimate Mere Mortals Outcomes Trusted Retreat God's Love Conditional Mere Mortals

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in Him. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith means trust.”

Firsts Mean Children Jesus Christ Lord Principles Knowing Eternal Jesus Christ Ultimate Welfare God Knows Great Love Child Of God Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true.”

Want Firsts Looks May Suffering Realizing Mystery Willing Authority Direct Ultimate About Yourself Amazed Disturbed

Book:Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.”

Firsts Home Dream Three Goal Four Tomorrow Safe Ultimate Thirds Fourth Three Things Starting Over Pillars Life Goal Ultimate Goal Hopes And Dreams Safe Places

Author:Bill Walton

“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.”

“In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.”

World Way Firsts Two Done Shows Stars First Time Ultimate Available Oscars Movie Star

Author:Laura Ziskin

“We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.”

“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.”

Firsts Lasts Belief Lines Security Weapons Gun Ultimate Spread Defense

Author:Tony Blair

“In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.”

People Firsts Whole Form Purpose Individual Understanding Religious Accepting Discipline Periods Ultimate Rational Command Unconditional Love Unconditional Religious Life

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.”

“I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.”

Firsts Wells Shows Saws Grew Grew Up Ultimate Bones Video Skateboarding

Author:Mike Vallely

“That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.”

Thinking Firsts Results Achieve Products Conversation Ultimate Valuable

Author:Jonathon Keats

“Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's not about what it means to that woman. It's not about what it means to Hillary to be the first president. It's about what it means to all of the women in America, that a woman has broken the ultimate marble ceiling and that anything is possible for them and their daughters - and their sons. It's about sons, too.”

Knows Firsts Mean America President Position Son Broken Members Daughter Ultimate Clinton Ceilings Marble Anything Is Possible

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior. The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.”

Way Firsts Wanted Personality Ultimate Rings Warrior Combination Wrestling Cake Craziness Physicality Coolness Athleticism Shawn Michaels

Author:Jeff Hardy

“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”

Feels Firsts Littles Problem Body Ultimate Anger Betrayal Frustration Rebel Anger And Frustration

Author:Charles Bronson

“I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Littles Problem Would Be Taxes Solutions Fairs Ultimate Edges Code Fairness Simplify

Author:Herman Cain

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”

“So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Way Firsts Art Running Simple Quality Company Modern Design Products Approach Ultimate Simplicity Advertising Shooting Apples Museums Mantras Sophistication Modern Art Product Design Brochures

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.”

Firsts Believe Hands Seems Simple Existence Doubt Arms Skills Tasks Ultimate Disappear Gas Glances Calculations Refinement

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

Way Life Firsts Kind Success Three Inspire Ultimate Thirds Be Kind Thank You Three Ways Ultimate Success

Author:Fred Rogers

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.”

Source: Uncles, Aunts and Elephants: A Ruskin Bond Treasury

“I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.”

Men Feels Years Firsts Believe Whole Facts Lasts Science Universe Three Known Four Fate Creation Development Evolution Ultimate Bases Structure Determine Experts Presumptuous

Author:John N. Bahcall

“To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.”

Firsts Ends Action Religion Events Judging Standards Ultimate Absolutes Believer Communism Meaning Of Life Marxism

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.”

Firsts Dream Success Sports Enjoy Goal Loses Effort Achieve Amount Ethics Ultimate Sight Athlete Spite Motivational Sports Display Work Ethic Persevere Setback Ultimate Goal Best Athlete

Author:Dianne Holum

“Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.”

“The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser. In deep surrender, the ego disappears. And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.”

Firsts Reality Spiritual Fighting Meditation Awareness Conflict Ego Losing First Time Ultimate Disappear Surrender Deep Loser Mystic

Author:Rajneesh

“Everything went well, we had a good first period. We wanted to win, and we did. We have a big game in two days, and it will be fun. We worked hard, and it is our ultimate goal. We are ready. There is always a big rivalry between Canada and the United States; it's always fun, and we are really motivated.”

“So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.”

Ifs Way Firsts Wells Action Lying Next Force Goal Results Direct Weak Ultimate Accomplish Reactions Objectives Divided Stimulus Ultimate Goal

Author:Roger McDonald

“Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game”

Firsts Games Objects Kings Ultimate Strategy Chess Capture Adverse Chess Game

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”

Firsts Names Given Women Ultimate Stranger Memorable Indignity

Author:Maggie Kuhn

“The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.”

Trying Firsts Hard Order Challenges Leadership Leader Changed Tests Ultimate Trying To Change

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.”

People Way Firsts Mean Use Cry Negative Decided Ultimate Cancer Shock Initials Paranoia

Author:Herbie Mann

“You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.”

People Knows Firsts Believe Persons Order Records Greater Cutting Economic Effects Activity Taxes Smart Ultimate Agree Rate Thoughtful Revenue Reduction Smart People Tax Cuts

Author:Andrew Samwick

“First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.”

Mind Firsts Children Body Moving Ultimate Complexes Core Relax Relaxation Relaxed Simplest Small Child

Author:Rajneesh

“We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Heart Soul Turns Christ Materials Performances Ultimate Oneself Possession Welfare Lasting Commandments Describing Material Possessions Consecration

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Firsts Would Be Common Existence Share Ultimate Meaningful Meaning Of Life

Book:Being Singular Plural

Source: Being Singular Plural

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