First Steps Quotes - Page 16

• Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.

  Faye J Crosby

  Stress, Responsibility, Wish

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

  George Lucas

  Children, Responsibility, Emotional

  "George Lucas' 2010 Philanthropy Pledge". George Lucas' Giving Pledge letter, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

  Peter Singer

  Distance, Independent, Sight

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

  John Dewey

  Men, Mind, Care

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Childhood, Firsts, Steps

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

  Jacques Maritain

  Taken, Men, Wish

  "The Range of Reason". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 137), 1952.

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• We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

  Francois Fenelon

  Powerful, Self, Hands

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  William James

  Moving, Risk, Trying

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.325, Library of America

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• A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Needs, Might, Firsts

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.14

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• I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Lying, Self, Firsts

  Cawaii Interview, December 2007.

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• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Destiny, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Winning, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• ... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

  John Ashbery

  Moon, Journey, Confusion

  John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth (1971). “John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth”, Not Avail

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• The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Who I Am, Identity, Firsts

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

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• The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

  Amelia Barr

  Firsts, Steps

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

  Roy H. Williams

  Target, Want, Firsts

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• Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.

  William H. Prescott

  Eye, Hands, Civilization

  William H. PRESCOTT (1873). “History of the Conquest of México”, p.173

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• The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Way, Firsts

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• Resistance is the first step to change.

  Louise Hay

  Change, Resistance, Firsts

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.48, Hay House, Inc

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• A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Loving Yourself, Men

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you. Then you make the decision to do it which means it's a firm decision that won't change when your feelings change. The next step is to depend on the Holy Spirit to help you do what you've decided to do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Mean, Decision

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

  Eric Kandel

  Artist, Medicine, Steps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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