Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Accursed be he that first invented war.
When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.