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• Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

  Eric Kandel

  Artist, Medicine, Steps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Lying, Self, Firsts

  Cawaii Interview, December 2007.

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• Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.

  Faye J Crosby

  Stress, Responsibility, Wish

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

  Gerald Brommer

  Editing, Firsts, Steps

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• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  Alan Judd

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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• The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  Country, Socialist Countries, Agreement

  "World Peace and the Developing Countries" Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, (p. 126), 1986.

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• Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

  Katie Davis

  Knowing, Path, Firsts

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• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Moving, Our World

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• Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

  Hermann Hesse

  Doe, Violence, Firsts

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• What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?

  Camille Flammarion

  Beautiful, Cutting, Intelligent

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Three, Deeds

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• The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola Virus, Vaccines, Phases

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• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

  Tony Dungy

  Creating, Firsts, Steps

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Fighting, Successful

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Creating

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Destiny, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

  Colley Cibber

  Firsts, Steps, Please

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans”, p.238

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• The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Dark, Sight

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Way, Firsts, Steps

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• we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Together, Different, Labels

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

  Charles Simmons

  Integrity, Greatness, Steps

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.275

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• Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

  Bill Walsh

  Nfl, Knowing, Doe

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.31, Penguin

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