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.
You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.
I bet the very first piñata was surprised. “Oh, hey a party! Cool! What’s the occa— HEY, WHAT THE HELL, KID?
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.
When I first put on the red wig and the red dress, I couldn't believe it was happening. I was like, 'Oh my gosh, this is the dress everyone knows 'Annie' for, and I'm wearing it.'
Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.
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.
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Ladies, how do you expect a man to love you, if he hasn't first learnt how to love himself?
When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
