First Steps Quotes - Page 18

• The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  People, Justice, Demand

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Book, People

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• Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management.  This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Government, Community

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what we now know as science] has completely merged with methodological revelation [or totally known mystical knowledge in which every aspect of the occult has been overcome]. A true tradition has no occult or hidden phases left in its process. The creators and the audience are in perfect harmony.

  Paul Laffoley

  Perfect, Firsts, Steps

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• Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.

  Stella Chess

  Baby, Real, Years

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• The most important step of all is the first step.  Start something!  What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people?  You owe it to the world ot act.  Or maybe it will help only a few people:  The same advice applies.  If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Ideas, People

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• Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories.

  Polybius

  Motivational, Winning, Knowing

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• The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Journey, Omission

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• Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Dream, Passion

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.127, Penguin

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• It is in the small things we see it.
  The child's first step,
  as awesome as an earthquake.
  The first time you rode a bike,
  wallowing up the sidewalk.

  Anne Sexton

  Courage, Children, Earthquakes

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

  Mark Cuban

  Blow, Ideas, Important

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Phones, Creating, Nine

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• And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

  Plato

  What Matters, Firsts, Steps

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• we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Together, Different, Labels

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Departure, Slippery Slope, Firsts

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• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

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• Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.

  Fred Hoyle

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

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• Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

  James Bovard

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

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• Awareness is always the first step.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Firsts, Steps, Awareness

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• Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

  Gary Snyder

  World, Might, Firsts

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• I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

  Jean Kerr

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

  Eliphas Levi

  Mean, Passion, Perfection

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• The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heaven, Firsts, Steps

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.12

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• The first step of a journey is always the longest.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Firsts, Steps

  Richard Paul Evans (2013). “Miles to Go”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.

  Fred Ritchin

  Ideas, People, World

  "Fred Ritchin Redefines Digital Photography". Interview with Pete Brook, www.wired.com. September 2, 2011.

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