#first

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ↗

— Antisthenes

#discover #first #mistakes #pay #pay attention

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film. ↗

— Avi Arad

#bad #bad one #being #being judged #dealing

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #language #making #means #must

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #good #must #ruled #ruler

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#getting #hurt #losing #me #nearly

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#am #be the first #british #commissioner #first

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#bought #danger #did #experts #first