#the first thing

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

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What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down. ↗

— Dennis Muren

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

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