I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.
If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.
You’re able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
Don’t just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won’t get you anywhere.
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
I think my general disposition on life is finding what’s funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, “What’s funny about it?”
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’
Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success.
Most persons who indulge in second thought don’t do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?