First Steps Quotes - Page 27

• The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Rabbits, Firsts

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• Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Gun, Mouths

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, War, Party

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Pain, Real

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• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  e. e. cummings

  Firsts, Steps, Creation

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• The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

  Jase Robertson

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

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• Clothing is the first step to building a character.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Firsts, Steps

  "Sylvester Stallone to Launch Men’s Brand" by Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. March 24, 2011.

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• For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Struggle, Taken, Years

  "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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• To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

  Robert Southey

  Positive, Mind, Wish

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• The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

  Leonard Bloomfield

  Firsts, Steps, Study

  Leonard Bloomfield (1994). “Language”, p.21, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

  Margaret Mead

  Law, Long, Mind

  "Are Shelters the Answer?". The New York Times Magazine (p. 125), November 26, 1961.

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• Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

  Amy Tan

  Luck, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin

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• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Views, Opposites, People

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• Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

  Joyce Meyer

  Goal, Focus, Important

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• The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Truth, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  Galway Kinnell

  Travel, Way, Firsts

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• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

  Anne Rice

  Grief, Mean, Eye

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• The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Secret, Vices, Likes

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Eye, Drawing

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

  Alan Lightman

  Goodbye, Coffee, Passion

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• The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

  Dan Millman

  Children, Reality, Creating

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• We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, Would Be, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  Ted Rall

  Boss, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Simple, Tv Shows, Understanding

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

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