Foremost Quotes

#1. I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Stephen Harper

#2. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr

#3. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.

George Washington

#4. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Tommy Bolt

#5. Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

Yo Gotti

#6. I'm a Texas guy, and the good and bad of that is that I'm always, first and foremost, loyal. If it weren't for 'Supernatural,' I wouldn't have a lot of the blessings that I have today, so I'm going to play it out. I'm going to give it my all.

Jared Padalecki

#7. We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves.

Julie-Anne

#8. Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at the top of the corporate ladder than in the janitor's closet, due to the close match between the personality traits of sociopaths and the unusual demands of high-powered jobs.

M.E. Thomas

#9. I think that's who you should be servicing as an actor is the fans. You don't wanna alienate new people from coming in, but you gotta first and foremost service your fans.

Krysten Ritter

#10. I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

Joe Lhota

#11. To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.

Yao Ming

#12. My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Nerlens Noel

#13. I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

Aaron Patzer

#14. These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

John Lindsay

#15. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Saint Basil

#16. Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Melissa Rosenberg

#17. But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Alicia Machado

#18. First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.

Walter Isaacson

#19. Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

Michelle Obama

#20. Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

Kesha

#22. 304. Our service has to be first and foremost to God

Sunday Adelaja

#23. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Ray Bradbury

#24. I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

Ondi Timoner

#25. Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

David Halberstam

#26. Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#27. I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.

Yaroslav Trofimov

#28. The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Wayne Dyer

#29. But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

Midge Ure

#30. I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

#31. Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Christopher West

#32. Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

Jill Douglas

#33. Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Marc Chagall

#34. In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Rajneesh

#35. Wondering how one went about forcing one's mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.

Ayn Rand

#36. Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Allan Sekula

#37. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

#38. People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

Robert D. Putnam

#39. Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#40. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

James Cook

#41. And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

Melissa Bean

#42. First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Ringo Starr

#43. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

Jay Carr

#44. I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait.

Stephen Crane

#45. First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This

Walter Isaacson

#46. My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so.

Ong Teng Cheong

#47. I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#48. Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.

LaMar Boschman

#49. If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

Andrew Mellon

#50. Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

Valerie Jarrett

#51. We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Alice Nutter

#52. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

Leslie Ludy

#53. When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.

Ramez Naam

#54. Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

George Gissing

#55. Among all the sutras I have expounded,
Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost!
If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra,
it means you are able to uphold the body of a Buddha!
(LS 11: 3.35)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 11, Section 3, Paragraph 35

Gautama Buddha

#56. All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.

Darren Shan

#57. First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

Lev Polugaevsky

#58. Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Charles Duhigg

#59. I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

Cameron Diaz

#60. I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation because I sort of believe I had to take it upon myself that my rehabilitation and getting myself 100 percent healthy had to be first and foremost, before the team, in my mind,

Tedy Bruschi

#61. I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Paola Antonelli

#62. I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Chad Harbach

#63. I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that.

Tom DeLonge

#64. I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Nick Cave

#65. Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

Ray Manzarek

#66. The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#67. We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

Emanuel Cleaver

#68. First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

Kathy Najimy

#69. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Leonard Ravenhill

#70. First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

Lou Holtz

#71. Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.

Salman Rushdie

#72. God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart.

Sri Chinmoy

#73. First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

Rochelle Aytes

#74. I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I've no feeling of letting her down because I've put her foremost in everything.

John F. Kennedy

#75. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

Rosa DeLauro

#76. But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#77. First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college ... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

DJ Spooky

#78. Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

Shari Sebbens

#79. ood legal writing does not sound as though it was written by a lawyer. Good legal writing, like good writing in general, is writing that keeps the readers' interests foremost.13

Ross Guberman

#80. I'm not just considered a former child star. I'm not considered a black actress. I'm not considered an actress. I've done roles that were written for men. First and foremost is God: I definitely believe in Him having kind of mapped out what my destiny was going to be.

Kim Fields

#81. I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

Amy Hempel

#82. When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Phil McGraw

#83. 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.

Joseph J. Lhota

#84. I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.

Mike Pence

#85. I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

Ray Stevens

#86. I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Stephen Harper

#87. Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Matt Salmon

#88. Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

Lisa Unger

#89. First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

Richard Branson

#90. You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

Wolf Blitzer

#91. Have we forgotten our calling? (2 Cor. 5:19-20) Remember that your first and foremost calling is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that gospel is a twofold message: His death for our sins and His resurrection for our lives.

Kay Arthur

#92. Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Peter F. Drucker

#93. Do we really fall in love repeatedly and feel it real every time, or we just pose the duplication of our first and foremost love we have ever experienced?
The question remains yet again, who is the beloved?

M.F. Moonzajer

#94. It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

Swami Muktananda

#95. Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Alfred M. Gray

#96. We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.

Monica Johnson

#97. First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.

Bobby Hull

#98. Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

Anton Chekhov

#99. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.

Christopher Dines

#100. He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

Keith Carradine