First Steps Quotes - Page 29

• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Order, Enemy, Firsts

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• At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.

  Jill Douglas

  Athlete, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Children, Cutting, Glasses

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

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• Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Slippery Slope, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Steps, Firsts

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

  Mark Nepo

  Compassion, People, Inner Peace

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.

  Augustus Napier

  Loyalty, Sex, Pain

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  When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Understanding, Suffering

  "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  Charles Handy

  Suicide, Giving, Risk

  Charles Handy (2011). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, p.219, Random House

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• Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Mean, Simple

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• The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

  Richard Carlson

  Humility, Creating, Peaceful

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

  Louise Hay

  Inspiring, Miracle, Matter

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.35, Hay House, Inc

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• The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.215, Bantam

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• As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

  Arthur Henderson

  Equality, Rights, Firsts

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• Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

  Scott Walker

  Couple, Use, Unions

  "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union-Busting Bill in Wisconsin" by Mary Bottari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

  John Bingham

  Running, Distance, Moving

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.105, Rodale

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• The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Firsts, Steps

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

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• Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Cat, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Opportunity, Land, Cities

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• What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Running, Boston, Numbers

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• The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Firsts, Steps

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• Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

  John Piper

  Father, Love You, Compassion

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.61, Baker Academic

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• Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Firsts, Succeed

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.20, Penguin

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