Quotes of: First-world Keyword

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to ot...

The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.

The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.

New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century

The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can den...

The Nature of the Physical World

Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

Raul Ruiz

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

Tomie dePaola

We could end up with the world's first Mr and Mrs Dave and Dave Gorman-Gorman!

Are You Dave Gorman?

With the first line of Mehendi, she forgot her troubles and delved into the beautiful world of checkered patterns and intricate lines.

Love, Again

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

Spiritwalk

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

John Romero

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

Matt Mullenweg

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.

Virginia Postrel

To start a happy conversation with anybody in this world Is to be happy yourself first and secondly be a humble human being. Only then can you make others Happy.

Sham Hinduja

An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

Ken Auletta

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Kofi Annan

Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.

Keith Ellison

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Koren Zailckas

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

Lee Myung-bak