First Steps Quotes - Page 19

• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Commitment, Firsts, Steps

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• If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.

  David Trumble

  Girl, Thinking, Perfect

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• As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

  Peter Drucker

  Understanding, Firsts, Steps

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.236, Routledge

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• The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Firsts, Steps, Achieve

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Freedom, Taken, Eye

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

  Pete Wilson

  People, Firsts, Steps

  Pete Wilson (2011). “Plan B”, p.75, Grupo Nelson

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• The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

  Lilias Trotter

  Names, Ideas, Long

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• The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

  Eric Barker

  Consistency, Ambitious, Shooting

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• The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Ego, Firsts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.666, Routledge

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• The first step is the hardest.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Motivation, Firsts, Steps

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• I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, World

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.402, Running Press

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• Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

  Garrison Keillor

  Catholic, Firsts, Steps

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• Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

  Paul Davies

  Progress, Research, Littles

  "The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2013.

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• As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Steps, Apollo

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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Meaningful, Believe, Struggle

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• But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Growth, Vision

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• It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

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• The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Important, Firsts, Steps

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• Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

  Jim Talent

  Firsts, Steps, Needed

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• If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Mistake, Firsts

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• Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Art, Creativity, Suffering

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