First Steps Quotes - Page 21

• A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Communication, Firsts, Steps

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• Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

  Daymond John

  Reality, Ideas, Firsts

  Twitter post from Oct 5, 2015

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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• In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Availability, Demand, Firsts

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.229, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

  Amy Neftzger

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Neftzger (2014). “The Orchard of Hope”, p.84, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.”  This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly.  According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Clouds, Political, Important

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• The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

  Leslie Ludy

  Romance, Stories, Firsts

  Leslie Ludy (2009). “Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman”, p.71, Multnomah

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  If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

  Nick Vujicic

  True Friend, World, Firsts

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• The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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• Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

  Peter Drucker

  Animal, Men, Survival

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

  Betty Friedan

  Motherhood, Years, Names

  "The Fountain of Age". Book by Betty Friedan, Preface, 1993.

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• The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

  Vineet Nayar

  Communication, People, Firsts

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• COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, People, Goal

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Sep 25, 2014

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• If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

  Pema Chodron

  Giving Up, Pain, Insecurity

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• I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

  George Lucas

  Children, Responsibility, Emotional

  "George Lucas' 2010 Philanthropy Pledge". George Lucas' Giving Pledge letter, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

  Peter Singer

  Distance, Independent, Sight

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

  John Dewey

  Men, Mind, Care

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Childhood, Firsts, Steps

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

  Jacques Maritain

  Taken, Men, Wish

  "The Range of Reason". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 137), 1952.

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• We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

  Francois Fenelon

  Powerful, Self, Hands

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  William James

  Moving, Risk, Trying

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.325, Library of America

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• I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

  Mark Cuban

  Blow, Ideas, Important

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Needs, Might, Firsts

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.14

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