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"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes."
"Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done."
"The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't."
"A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck."
"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
"Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step."
"You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first."
"I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave."
"Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best."
"Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes."
"So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally."
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."
"As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out."
"All the great speakers were bad speakers at first."
"When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."
"If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave."
". . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward."
"Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came."
"A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him."
