There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
first-rate academic qualifications, but we need to have a thorough hearing on him to explore a number of issues, including his ability to render independent judgments.
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
In today's highly complex society it takes years of training in rationalization, accommodation and compromise to qualify for the good jobs with the really big payoffs you need to retain a first-rate psychiatrist in today's world.
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