First Steps Quotes - Page 12

• All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Beautiful, Vision, Want

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• Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

  Michael Beckwith

  Humility, Pride, Listening

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 02, 2012

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• Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is the only real thing. Love has two possibilities: either it falls into sex and becomes a bodily thing, or it rises into devotion and becomes a thing of the spirit. Love is just in between. Just below it is the abyss of sex, and beyond it is the open sky - the infinite sky of devotion.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Real, Flower

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• The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

  Joseph Delaney

  Ignorance, Firsts, Steps

  Joseph Delaney (2008). “The Spook's Curse”, p.54, Random House

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• I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Letting Go, Motherhood, Long

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.229, Da Capo Press

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• Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Ambition, Reality

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• The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

  Giovanni Battista Brocchi

  Science, Shells, Earth

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• The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Clouds, Political, Deceit

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.131, South End Press

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• Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Freedom, Soul, Firsts

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.257, editionNEXT.com

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• Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.

  Joel Beeke

  Pain, Loss, Joy

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• Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Journey, Two

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• A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

  Boman Irani

  Society, Might, Firsts

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• A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

  Francis Atterbury

  Firsts, Steps, Sin

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• We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.

  Ted Cruz

  Air, Isis, Needs

  "Republicans Tonight: Let’s Invade Iraq All Over Again". www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2016.

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• The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Needs, Firsts, Steps

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Clothes, Decision

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

  Chris Murray

  Firsts, Steps, Impossible

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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• The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.fool.com

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• The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  People, Brave, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Office, Attention

  Source: deadline.com

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• I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Compassion, Wings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.pbs.org

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