When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
