First Contact Quotes

• No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

  Helmuth von Moltke el Viejo

  Firsts, Force, Operations

  "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings" by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, (p. 92), 1993.

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• Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

  Martin Freeman

  Creativity, Clothes, People

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

  Sarah Zettel

  Life, Stories, Invasion

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• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

  Evan Parker

  Summer, Pivotal Moments, Firsts

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• Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

  Jonathan Frakes

  Motivational, Men, History

  "Fictional character: Cmdr. William Riker". "Star Trek: First Contact", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1996.

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• We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

  Patrick Stewart

  Fall, Space, Done

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• El peor error del primer contacto, cometido a lo largo de la historia por individuos de ambos lados de cada nuevo encuentro, ha sido el desafortunado hábito de hacer suposiciones. A menudo ha resultado fatal.

  David Brin

  Error, Literatura, Primeros

  "Una perspectiva contraria del altruismo: los peligros del primer contacto". Intervención de David Brin en la conferencia "Encoding Altruism", septiembre de 2002.

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• No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers

  Steve Blank

  Firsts, Blank, Contact

  Steve Blank (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.70, BookBaby

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• Aunque nunca lleguemos a las estrellas por nuestros propios medios, en los millones de años que nos esperan es casi seguro que las estrellas vendrán a nosotros. El aislacionismo no es una política práctica ni a escala nacional ni a escala cósmica. Y cuando se produzca el primer contacto con el universo exterior, nos gustaría pensar que la Humanidad desempeñó un papel activo y no meramente pasivo, que fuimos los descubridores y no los descubiertos.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Campaigns, Firsts

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• It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.

  Leonard Peltier

  Men, White, Feet

  Fuente: montanapioneer.com

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• I think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they're kind of... I don't know, they're sort of movies. But they're kind of really Star Trek movies, if you take my meaning. It's hard for me to say. I was glad to be doing them. Whether they were good isn't really up to me to determine, and it doesn't matter what I think. I thought we had a really nice script on Nemesis, and the audience didn't seem to care for it, so what can you do?

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Nice, Thinking

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

  Tim Harford

  Thinking, Enemy, Firsts

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• All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

  Joshua Foer

  Kissing, Culture, Mouths

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• [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Ease, Vivid

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.57, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have often heard people say, 'I never knew I was a libertarian until I took the Quiz!'

  Ron Paul

  País, Ideas, Personas

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Falling In Love, People, Actors

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

  C.S. Friedman

  Hombres, Doe, Necesidades

  C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.44, Penguin

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• No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Enemy, Battle, Firsts

  "Cetaganda". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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