#second

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#been #congress #consensus #country #dramatic

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs. ↗

— Jack Markell

#budget #creating #even #fiddle #focus

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#brought #fall #home #named #our

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#get #second-guess #then #trying #you

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there. ↗

— Bode Miller

#go #go for it #going #gonna #got

Then, as now, it was just uncomfortable. Now, as then, it was a lifted chin and a crooked smile that said more than they would ever allow themselves to communicate. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#second-chances #usmc #communication

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#facebook #first #history #jobs #know

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#conceive #continues #down #field #first