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  • The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

    Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

  • Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

    Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.
  • First things first, I'm da realest.

  • There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

    Life   Change   Bad Ass  
    Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

    Long   Worry   Done  
    Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.277, Macmillan
  • Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

    "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963".
  • Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

    Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
  • Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  • We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

    Men   Hands   Long  
  • When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

    "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.
  • On My First Driving Lesson “First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?…Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that’s not moving makes you an asshole.

    Moving   Smell   Car  
  • A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

  • I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

    Crush   Girl   Mouths  
    Laini Taylor (2013). “Night of Cake & Puppets”, p.26, Hachette UK
  • Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  • Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise.

    Jobs   Moving   Cat  
    Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press
  • America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

  • Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

    Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.
  • The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

    "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, reason.com. 1993.
  • If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

  • Obviously, you've got to make the chase first, so first things first - get in the chase. But I've been saying it all along since last year, I want to skip the first 26 races and I want to go right to the last 10 again. That's where they pay the money. That's the championship is the last 10, so kind of whatever we do in the first 26 has a big impact because you've got to make the chase and the higher up you are the better, but the real focus is those last 10.

    Real   Impact   Race  
  • Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

  • First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

    Comfort   Firsts   Cliche  
    Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.156, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

    Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Begin with the end in mind.

    Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey
  • If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.

  • You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

    C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.310, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

    Art   Real   Successful  
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