#irs

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ago #autobiography #book #every #first

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#apply #energies #first #growing #incessantly

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#day #entered #few #first #gymnastics

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#back #become #came #deprived #does

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#death

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#else #everything #first #first law #law

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed. ↗

— Bill Condon

#changed #come #far #first #foremost

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ↗

— Confucius

#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ↗

— Confucius

#difficulty #first #his #interest #later