Right The First Time Quotes

#1. 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

Ellington Darden

#2. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time

Tim Harford

#3. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance!

Sergei Bongart

#4. 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.

John Dos Passos

#5. Once ... but then I realized I was right the first time, so I never bothered to change my mind again.

G.A. Aiken

#6. 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

Ray Kurzweil

#7. 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.

Jane Mayer

#8. I'm lazy, I like to do it right the first time.

Cian Beirdd

#9. 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.

Eric Weiner

#10. 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.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

Dennis Miller

#12. Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Roseanne Barr

#13. He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.

Jim Dodge

#14. Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.

Stephen King

#15. The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

Robert Cormier

#16. Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Scott Adams

#17. 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.

Elizabeth Edwards

#18. Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#19. Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Stephen Hawking

#20. Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort.

Pooja Ruprell

#21. There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

Joel Salatin

#23. 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.

Frank Zappa

#24. I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

Patricia MacLachlan

#25. Only God gets things right the first time.

Stephen King

#26. Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Fred Brooks

#27. Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

Kenneth Noland

#28. What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

James Alan Gardner

#29. I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.

Matt Ridley

#30. A long term relationship is priceless! Divorce isn't. This book should help you get it right the first time. Since it just came out however, it will help you get it right the next time also.

Susan Ziggy

#31. There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision.

Jane Yolen

#32. I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?

Will Smith

#33. You don't have to get it right the first time.

Barbara Sher

#34. It's not getting it right the first time
it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.

Susan Mallery

#35. Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Jon Bon Jovi

#36. It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Phil Crosby

#37. 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

William Zinsser

#38. I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows.

Sharon Shinn

#39. I'm starting to remember that it's okay when things don't turn out right the first time. I can always try again and get it right.

Susan Mallery

#40. 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.

James Stewart

#41. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Walter J. West

#42. Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.

Mike Michaud

#43. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

#44. I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

Dennis Miller

#45. Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.

Robert Cheeke

#46. Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Sarah Dessen

#47. Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

Penn Jillette

#48. Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

#49. Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

Bernie Brillstein

#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.

Robert M

#51. 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

Rascal Flatts

#52. 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.

Steven Tyler

#53. 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.

Djimon Hounsou

#54. 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.

Scott Adams

#55. 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

Francine Rivers

#56. 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.

Devon Monk

#57. 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.'

Katy Mixon

#58. 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.

Marc Anthony

#59. 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.

Ayn Rand

#60. 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.

Lee Byung-hun

#61. 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.

Kerry Patterson

#62. 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.

Hilary Duff

#63. 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.

Randy Bachman

#64. 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.

Michelle K. Pickett

#65. '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.

Steve Erickson

#66. 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.

Carlos Santana

#67. 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.

Pietra Brettkelly

#68. 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.

Birch Bayh

#69. Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

Peter Gallagher

#70. To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Simon Bolivar

#71. 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.

Sam Worthington

#72. 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.

John Gimlette

#73. 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.

Gary Wolf

#74. 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.

Hugh Howey

#75. 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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#76. 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.

Artie Lange

#77. 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.

Connie Chung

#78. 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.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#79. 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.

J.C. Reed

#80. 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.

Patrick Rothfuss

#81. Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

James Burrows

#82. 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.

Francis Cornford

#83. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#84. 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.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#85. 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.

Rysa Walker

#86. 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.

Ernst Mach

#87. The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

#88. For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.

Damon Suede

#89. The guy offered his left fist. Reacher bumped it with his right, behind DeLong's back. Not the first time his knuckles had touched a Sox fan, but by far the gentlest.

Lee Child

#90. It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

Megan Hart

#91. That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

Rick Perlstein

#92. The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

Richard P. Gabriel

#93. I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her."
Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

Cassandra Clare

#94. I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Richard Masur

#95. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#96. Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!

Rachel Caine

#97. Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

Minnie Pearl

#98. For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it.

Marie Kondo

#99. What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

Sade Adu

#100. People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

Marco Arment