A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Arnold Bennett
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
A. A. Milne
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn Waugh
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.
Doris Lessing
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
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