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Self-awareness of one's faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud. — Bauvard

But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first]. — Timothy Ferriss

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. — Art Buchwald

Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best. — M. Lincoln Schuster

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. — Elizabeth Edwards

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it. — Liam Perrin

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. — Valerie Trierweiler

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy. — Sally Ride

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful. — Gottfried Helnwein

I wanted to feel what it was like to kiss you for the first time without being sucked into a medicated fog. — A Meredith Walters

defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time — Steve McConnell

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.' — Scott Turow

Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true. — Mike Weir

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. — John Ruskin

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being. — Pedro Martinez

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step. — Seth Godin

For the first time, Manning felt frightened. It was an indefinite fear, of being small and vulnerable among large forces that were indifferent to him. — Michael Frayn

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. — Janeane Garofalo

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human. — Santosh Kalwar

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck. — Kevin Spacey

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. — Randal Cremer

To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave. — Annie F. Downs

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me. — Carol Thatcher

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches. — Rita Rudner

When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother. — Owen Hart

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror. — Tadahiko Nagao

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis De Sade

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. — Fred W. Friendly

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help. — Kerri Walsh

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. — Charles Olson

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration. — Bryan Mosley

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that. — Peter Criss

It was the feeling you get when you fall face first into bed after a long day. That's what being near Beck felt like. — R.S. Grey

The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being the first you. — John Paul Bernett

I'd never looked up and enjoyed the stars for being stars; I'd missed out on the beauty. First I was too afraid and then I was too busy. — Bridget Blackwood

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel. — Raquel Welch

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity! — Thomas Moore

Being aware of yourself and choosing your behavior is the first step towards powerful life change. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind. — R.C. Sproul

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first — Henrik Larsson

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate. — Nicolas Cage

One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody. — Merrit Malloy

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp

My mouth dries up. I know I am not apologizing for the picture. I am sorry for being there in the first place. — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by. — Stephanie Gilmore

When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war. — Mark Helprin

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. — Rumi

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being. — Leon Brown

On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you. — Elif Shafak

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.' — Helen Mirren

We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts. — Alain De Botton

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. — Suzanne Collins

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. — Marjane Satrapi

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

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. — Jacques Attali

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. — Louis L'Amour

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. — Henry David Thoreau

First be the best and then be first — John Wooden

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. — Jeff Buckley

You must walk in the very spacious places under the infinite skies to realize how small you are! This is the first step to start being big! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first. — Matt Corby

He broke the first law of being a vampire when he killed his own kind. If he can't stick to that simple rule, how safe do you think you are? — Derek Landy

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression. — Margaret Atwood

Thats the first rule of being a kid — Dan Gutman

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it. — Brendan Iribe

the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor. — John Perry Barlow

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved. — Thomas Merton

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything. — Janice Dickinson

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. — Bing Gordon

I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark. — Robyn Schneider

People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway. — Nick Hornby

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd. — Rick Wakeman

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one — Tom Peters

how can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley. — Robin S. Sharma

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and ... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that. — Garth Brooks

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid - like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being. — Jeff Lindsay

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months. — Cindy Margolis

Who was the first human being to look out a window? — Roberto Bolano

I've never ridden a bike before."
Horse leaned over and gave me a quick kiss on the mouth.
"Lookin' forward to being your first, babe. — Joanna Wylde

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth? — Gertrude Atherton

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing. — John Locke

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year. — John Le Carre

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds. — Neal Shusterman

Besides, is it really a lie when the person you're telling it to knows you aren't being truthful in the first place? — Paige Shelton

My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. — Stephen Fry

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face. — Dolly Parton

sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach. — Ryan Holiday

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead. — John Dryden

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president. — Hillary Clinton

Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me. — Patricia Lynne

A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you're being stoned. — Ayn Rand

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. — Jean Piaget