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Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what's most important. Then do those things first.
— Frank Bettger
I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.
— Lykke Li
Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.
— Tommy Wallach
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
— Sarah Dessen
People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
— Don McPherson
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
— Arsene Wenger
There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.
— Kendall Jenner
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
— Clement Greenberg
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
— Laurie Anderson
With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
— Estelle
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
— C.S. Lewis
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
— Stephen Covey
The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.
— Harold Gatty
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
— John Banham
The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
— Gertrude Diamant
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
— Philipp Meyer
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
— Robin Day
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
— Chuck Berry
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
— John Keats
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
— Nathan Myhrvold
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.
— Franklin Edgerton
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
— Jeff VanderMeer
You can increase your pleasure if you're willing to do things that don't feel good at first.
— Loretta Graziano Breuning
sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach.
— Ryan Holiday
My ma always told me that when I found things were too hard to figure out, I could probably bet that I hadn't prayed on it first.
— Tracie Peterson
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
— Laura Bush
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
— Charlie Gehringer
Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.
— Seth Meyers
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].
— Kevin Drew
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
— Michael Dell
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
— Myrtle Reed
First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.
— Jim Butcher
When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.
— Mark Schiff
There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.
— Jennifer Echols
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
It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.
— Stewart Lee Beck
People first. Dogs second. Things last.
— Nate Berkus
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.
— Neil Gaiman
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.
— Tom Felton
There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
— Sam Walton
I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.
— Peter Sarsgaard
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
— Shane Koyczan
There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
— Ed Greenwood
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
— Aristotle.
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
— Naya Rivera
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
— Peter Higgs
When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
— Bubba Watson
Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of my own reflection in dark glass.
— Olivia Sudjic
Three things in life you will never have to chase: True friends, true love and your destiny!
— Alex Haditaghi
What's on your bucket list?" I asked. "I got six things so far," Grandma said. "First off, I want new breasts. These ones I got are a mess.
— Janet Evanovich
Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
— Joe Abercrombie
True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.
— Matt Perman
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
— Colm Meaney
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
— Rainbow Rowell
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two. — Warren Buffett
If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two. — Warren Buffett
If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
— David B. Haight
They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.
— Chris Cleave
When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.
— Renae A. Sauter
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.
— Woody Allen
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
— Patricia Wentworth
They have an inherent ability to find hidden order where at first glance things appear chaotic and unconnected.
— Truity
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
— Ashton Shepherd
I never once heard her say she gone leave Leroy, and Minny don't say things twice. When she do things, they done the first time.
— Kathryn Stockett
My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
— Jess Glynne
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate.
So I think it was fate. — Ai Yazawa
So I think it was fate. — Ai Yazawa
Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
— Cynthia Ozick
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
— Aldous Huxley
One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.
— Matt Ross
How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?
— William Golding
Since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?
— E. E. Cummings
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
— Galileo Galilei
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. — Jim George
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. — Jim George
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.
— Francis Bacon
On his first visit on shore piloting him firmly but without ostentation to a vast, cavern-like shop which is full of things that are eaten and
— Joseph Conrad