It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ‘dear deceit’ of beauty.
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus...
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meet, and that is the first requisite of business.
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer’s self conceit.