Top 72 Many Firsts Quotes
#1. Hmm.. you and I, we're giving each other many firsts.
E.L. James
#2. There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.
Maria Sharapova
#3. You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.
Taylor Swift
#4. There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
Wolf Kahn
#5. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
Terence Rattigan
#6. You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.
Thierry Henry
#7. The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.
Laura Sydell
#8. The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.
Manuel Castells
#9. First trust your eyes ... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.
Sergei Bongart
#10. Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.
Freeman Patterson
#11. Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
Walter Darby Bannard
#12. First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.
Gil Blake
#13. So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
John B. S. Haldane
#14. How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
Archimedes
#15. The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
Charles Baxter
#16. I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#17. Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#18. One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.
Ada Lovelace
#19. There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.
Mike Love
#20. The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
Napoleon Hill
#21. I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.
Primo Levi
#22. Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
Dan Millman
#23. Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
Angela Davis
#24. I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
Adele Exarchopoulos
#25. Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I don't like the vibe in them. If even I'm not going into galleries, then who goes into art galleries in the first place?" It's just a certain, very narrow percentage of the population.
Eric Drooker
#26. Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action
Daniel Simon
#27. Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
Pete Townshend
#28. It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.
E. J. Hughes
#29. A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
Dorothy B. Porter
#30. My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
Jelly Roll Morton
#31. Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.
Israel Houghton
#32. Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.
Robert Gilpin
#33. The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
Abdellatif Kechiche
#34. Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.
Jock Stein
#35. Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first ... at least 100 employees and often many more.
Sam Altman
#36. As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.
Linda Blair
#38. One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#39. I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.
Steve Scott
#40. The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.
Bruce Kovner
#41. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.
Christopher Durang
#42. I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain cases and many have criticized its recent lack of deference to decisions made by state legislatures and Congress.
Mike DeWine
#43. It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#44. It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.
Judith N. Shklar
#45. So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
Lillian Russell
#46. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."
Katherine Paterson
#48. Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.
Dan Poynter
#49. Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
Hernando Cortes
#50. To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful
Robin Sharma
#51. Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Pliny The Elder
#52. The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
Denis Waitley
#53. The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
Robert Grudin
#54. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#55. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Philip Sidney
#56. I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
Richard Darman
#57. First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.
Ondi Timoner
#58. It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
J.C. Ryle
#59. Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
Mae West
#60. If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
Leigh Hunt
#61. I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
Karl Kraus
#62. How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
Bill Vaughan
#63. Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.
Jim Hodges
#64. Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
Peter Drucker
#65. Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
Charles Caleb Colton
#66. I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
Barbara Mikulski
#67. Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#68. The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#69. I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football
too many
but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.
Ricky Williams
#70. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.
James Tiptree Jr.
#71. When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.
Charli XCX
#72. A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
Voltaire
