The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
‐‐ Max de Pree
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
‐‐ H. Rap Brown
The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
‐‐ Tim Roth
The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
‐‐ Lesley Nicol
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
‐‐ Saul David
The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
‐‐ Venus Williams
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
‐‐ Nellie Melba
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
‐‐ Bill Gates
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
‐‐ Charles Dickens
The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.
‐‐ Cyrus Broacha
The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.
‐‐ Carne Ross
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
‐‐ Paul R. Ehrlich
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
‐‐ Anthea Turner
The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
‐‐ James Altucher
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
‐‐ Paul Hawken
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
‐‐ Ben Horowitz
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.
‐‐ Trudi Canavan
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
‐‐ Ryan Stiles
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
‐‐ Fred Silverman
The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.
‐‐ Andy Daly
The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff
The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.
‐‐ David Gerrold
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
‐‐ Ray Liotta
The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.
‐‐ David Walton
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
‐‐ Robert Duncan McNeill
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
‐‐ Michael Ondaatje
The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer
The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad
The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.
‐‐ Derek Harold Richard Barton
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
‐‐ Bobby Keys
The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard
The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'
‐‐ Jason Reitman
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.
‐‐ Trent Reznor
The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.
‐‐ Erik Hassle
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
‐‐ Jess Walter
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort
The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman
The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.
‐‐ Corin Tucker