"Put first things first and we get..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
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“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”
“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.”
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“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”
“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.”
“Organize one's values in the order of their worth”
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“Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.”
“You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.”
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”