Firsts Quotes

I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

Shoot first and never miss.

I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

Yeah, I’m very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I’ve worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they’re into, so I’m hoping that I will.

This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.

First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.