Quotes About Do It Right The First Time

#1. For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN. - Author: Connie Chung

#2. Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. - Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#3. At first, right at the outset, yes, I did feel an urge, and I lapsed into great anxiety. I kept thinking all the time of how I was going to live; I wanted to test my fate, felt anxious particularly at certain moments. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time. - Author: Francis Cornford

#5. Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch. - Author: James Burrows

#6. Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. - Author: Dennis Miller

#7. For the first time since our fight in Severen, I felt things were right between us. The silences no longer lay around us like holes in the road. I knew it had just been a matter of waiting patiently until the tension passed. - Author: Patrick Rothfuss

#8. You know the feeling you get when you think you hear music, and it makes you stop in your tracks, completely absorbed? Well, that's how I felt when I kissed you for the very first time. I knew right then that I could love you. - Author: J.C. Reed

#9. After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take. - Author: Stevie Ray Vaughan

#10. So why didn't he vanish?" Charlayne nods toward Kiernan. "After Max took his key, he should have disappeared, right?"
"I would have," Kiernan says, "except someone was wise enough to give me a backup when I was eight. This isn't the first time it's saved me. - Author: Rysa Walker

#11. When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either. - Author: Artie Lange

#12. As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson - that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time. - Author: Richard Paul Evans

#13. And felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size. - Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. What felt interminable the first time now passes with a quickness borne of familiarity. It makes me wonder if life seems to accelerate as we get older simply because our days and our experiences become routine. The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention. - Author: Hugh Howey

#15. Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times. - Author: Gary Wolf

#16. The bull's-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don't make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us. - Author: Eric Weiner

#17. It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key. - Author: John Gimlette

#18. A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. - Author: Sam Worthington

#19. Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time. - Author: Roseanne Barr

#20. Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. - Author: Ernst Mach

#21. You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over. - Author: Elizabeth Edwards

#22. Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump. - Author: Frank Zappa

#23. Do you want anything from the shop?" definitely ranked as one of my top three favorite sentences of all time. It's right up there with, "School's been cancelled because of the weather" and "Would you like me to go down on you first? - Author: L. H. Cosway

#24. If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have to think about what is right because doing the right thing becomes who you are, like a reflex. Your actions with time become your character - Author: J.L. Witterick

#25. I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.' - Author: Pink

#26. I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project. - Author: Kristanna Loken

#27. The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up. - Author: Jack Dee

#28. It's not getting it right the first time
it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy. - Author: Susan Mallery

#29. It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time. - Author: Phil Crosby

#30. Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do - Author: William Zinsser

#31. I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time. - Author: James Stewart

#32. I've dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don't kiss on the first date, so I'll take a girl out to dinners, and we'll go bowling, and I make sure to charm them before I do it. - Author: Kellan Lutz

#33. Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time. - Author: Robert Cheeke

#34. I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. - Author: John Dos Passos

#35. I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me. - Author: Lee Byung-hun

#36. I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow. - Author: Ayn Rand

#37. I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten. - Author: Joan Ganz Cooney

#38. First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right. - Author: Marc Anthony

#39. Once ... but then I realized I was right the first time, so I never bothered to change my mind again. - Author: G.A. Aiken

#40. My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.' - Author: Katy Mixon

#41. Horseshit," Shame said cheerfully. "He can dispossess you and die. Pretty easy, really. Most people die the right way the first time. You'd think a genius like him wouldn't screw it up so badly. - Author: Devon Monk

#42. Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ROMANS 13:11 - Author: Francine Rivers

#43. This is the first principle of dialogue - Start with Heart. That is, your own heart. If you can't get yourself right, you'll have a hard time getting dialogue right. - Author: Kerry Patterson

#44. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance! - Author: Sergei Bongart

#45. The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it. - Author: Scott Adams

#46. The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story. - Author: Djimon Hounsou

#47. You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin' - it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move. - Author: Steven Tyler

#48. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time - Author: Tim Harford

#49. Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear Im gonna cry
Here comes the pain, Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye - Author: Rascal Flatts

#50. One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home. - Author: Robert M

#51. Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This - Author: Ellington Darden

#52. Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45 - Author: Ray Kurzweil

#53. Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time. - Author: Jane Mayer

#54. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do? - Author: Lesley Howarth

#55. I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. - Author: Hilary Duff

#56. I'm lazy, I like to do it right the first time. - Author: Cian Beirdd

#57. Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. - Author: Randy Bachman

#58. Not for the first time, I found myself wondering if leaving the compound had been the right thing to do. Then, as always, I looked at David and knew. Yes, I was where I was suposed to be
where David was. - Author: Michelle K. Pickett

#59. 'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner. - Author: Steve Erickson

#60. Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding. - Author: Carlos Santana

#61. Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy ... And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220 - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#62. In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture. - Author: Pietra Brettkelly

#63. You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet. - Author: Birch Bayh

#64. Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. - Author: Peter Gallagher

#65. What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to
say: Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a
pity we left it so late. - Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

#66. To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second. - Author: Simon Bolivar