Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1516.

  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Carl Safina Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me). Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Philip James Bailey Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Herzen Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Isadora Duncan So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bill Vaughan Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Secker Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
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  • Bob Dylan Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
    On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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