“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
Robert Aickman (1914–1981) British fantasy and horror writer
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 199
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
Robert Aickman (1914–1981) British fantasy and horror writer
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11654667-believing-in-yourself-and-having-a-positive-mindset-is-the
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 182
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
The First Step http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=145&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: Just to be on the first step<br>should make you happy and proud.<br>To have come this far is no small achievement:<br>what you have done is a glorious thing.<br>Even this first step<br>is a long way above the ordinary world.<br>To stand on this step<br>you must be in your own right<br>a member of the city of ideas.<br>And it is a hard, unusual thing<br>to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.<br>Its councils are full of Legislators<br>no charlatan can fool.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947–2011) Israeli physicist and management guru
Source: The goal: a process of ongoing improvement (1984), p. 41
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man
biographyonline.net http://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/alex-fleming.html
“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”
Denis Diderot book Philosophical thoughts
As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Variant: A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Variant: The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Source: Pensées philosophiques
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) American birth control activist, educator and nurse
"Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
it is greatness itself.
Reported in Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), p. 133.