First Steps Quotes - Page 11

• Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Simple, Compassion, Empathy

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• Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Atheism, Firsts

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process

  Issey Miyake

  Cutting, Buttons, Use

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• Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

  Ken Blanchard

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.182, David C Cook

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• The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Tolerance, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Firsts, Steps

  "Elon Musk: the new It Boy of Silicon Valley" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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• To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

  Louis Pasteur

  Discovery, Curiosity, Mind

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• The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Healing, Past

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.7, PuddleDancer Press

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• If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Divorce, Responsibility

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• The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

  J. C. Ryle

  Holiness, Firsts, Steps

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.36, Letcetera Publishing

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• The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Cutting, Reality, Long

  "The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters".

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• The first step to leadership is servanthood.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Firsts, Steps

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• There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

  Adora Svitak

  Motivational, Success, Ambition

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• Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Firsts, Steps

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

  Letter to Markus Fierz, 1948.

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• Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

  Brion Gysin

  Running, Nuts, Feet

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

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• For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

  Eugenio Barba

  Self, Discipline, Firsts

  Eugenio Barba (2009). “On Directing: Burning the House”, p.19, Routledge

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• If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Watches, Firsts

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• People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway

  Neal Boortz

  Racism, People, Firsts

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• Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

  Michael Schumacher

  Flower, Thinking, Listening

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• The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Squares, Faces

  "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Essay by Kazimir Malevich, November 1915.

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• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  William Labov

  Strong, Children, Home

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• The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self, Getting What You Want, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 29, 2014

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Pride, Men

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