#first things

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.


Stephen Covey


#carrying #discipline #effective #first #first things

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.


Carlisle Floyd


#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.


Danica Patrick


#across #came #car #conversation #cup

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.


Mink Stole


#did #ears #first #first things #got

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#complex #find #first #first things #get

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.


Ron Kind


#attention #bipartisan #both #caucus #congress

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.


Max Lerner


#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.


Quentin Tarantino


#first #first things #go #going #hand

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.


Ed Harris


#acting #against #compete #first #first things