Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
Only God gets things right the first time.
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead.
When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.
First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.
Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.
Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.