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• Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Reading, Roots

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

  Napoleon Hill

  Knowing, Achievement, Mind

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• the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Anger, Mad, Firsts

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• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

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• A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

  Francis Atterbury

  Firsts, Steps, Sin

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• The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heaven, Firsts, Steps

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.12

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• ... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

  Gertrude Diamant

  People, Understanding, Suffering

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• The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Choices, Firsts

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

  Pete Seeger

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.

  George Saunders

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: und.edu

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• chaos is the first step in the creative process.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Creativity, Creative, Firsts

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.148, Penguin

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• Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Firsts, Bears, Steps

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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• Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Phones, Creating, Nine

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• The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

  Vance Havner

  Church, World, Firsts

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Needs, Firsts

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• I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Book, Communication, Reading

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• The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Decision, Firsts

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Giving, Quality

  "Shepard Fairey on the Future of Political Art and Whether Obama Lived Up to His 'Hope' Poster". Interview with Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2015.

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• I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last  There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Real, Deeds Done

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• Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Goal, Today

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 21, 2014

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• Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

  Julie Garwood

  Flirting, Men, Long

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility...

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Condom Use, Males

  "Pope Benedict edges away from total ban on use of condoms" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2010.

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