First Steps Quotes - Page 19

• Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Trying, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.105, Penguin

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• We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

  Mother Teresa

  Determination, Prayer, Mean

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

  Charles Simmons

  Integrity, Greatness, Steps

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.275

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• Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

  Bill Walsh

  Nfl, Knowing, Doe

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.31, Penguin

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Reading, Roots

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

  Napoleon Hill

  Knowing, Achievement, Mind

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• the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Anger, Mad, Firsts

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• I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Growing Up, Years

  "Josh Groban Stages a musical takeover". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. September 2, 2015.

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• Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.

  David S. Ware

  Couple, Regret, Years

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• The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Thinking, Firsts

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.198, Multnomah

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• The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Choices, Firsts

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

  Pete Seeger

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Ideas, Steps, Sitting

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• Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Balance, Feminism, Together

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• Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hollywood, Firsts, Steps

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• If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.

  Hugh Mackay

  Weekend, Community, Anxiety

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• It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

  Walter Kirn

  Self, Names, Wiping Out

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Space, Firsts

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• The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Humility, Firsts, Steps

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• I have a strong hips and groin. It's the leg speed, the way I approach the ball. My first step is not very hard, but my second is explosive.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Strong, Balls, Legs

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• In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Stones

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• The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

  Seth Godin

  Ordinary, Firsts, Becoming

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