"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."

Johnny Rivers, American Musician

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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."

Billy Sheehan, American Musician

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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

First, Importance, Living

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."

Ike Turner, American Musician

First, Teaching

"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer

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"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great."

Val Kilmer, American Actor

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"When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down."

Betty Hill, American Celebrity

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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."

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"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."

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"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

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"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

Man

"You may remember that on earth-though of course we never confessed it-the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them."

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"The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car."

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"I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it."

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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."

"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great."

"When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."

"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

"You may remember that on earth-though of course we never confessed it-the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them."

"The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car."

"I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it."

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."

"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."