Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them.
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
Anyone who can’t compete only with himself defeats the very first and the basic purpose of doing anything really excellent.
in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.
