The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.
If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before
But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
Man, first I’m shot, now I’m going to be a friggin’ zombie. At this rate, I’ll never live to have my first date or a driver’s license. Ah, gah! I’ve come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can’t let me die…I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.