#first

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#discovery #first #i #idea #like

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#first #first step #i #i think #little

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

#benefit #break #broken #came #career

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#chance #conditions #corps #first #give

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #first #how #jokes #killed

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ↗

— Vernon Law

#experience #first #gives #hard #lesson

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time. ↗

— James Stewart

#ago #because #did #first #first time

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#free #make #miserable #set #truth

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?' ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#anytime #chill #first #hear #i