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May you find great value in these Rattle quotes and sayings.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
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Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value.
Certain belief systems have been more conducive than others
to people living long enough to reproduce,
and having a high rate of reproduction.
It's that basic.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
"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
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