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 first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.
American workers are first rate.
Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.
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.
