First Steps Quotes - Page 5

• I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Mom, People, Appreciate

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• What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, Childhood, Firsts

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• You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Cards You're Dealt, Healthy

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

  John Waters

  Winning, Your Side, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on the face of a one-year-old taking those first steps. I think of a child loving a puppy or a kitten. If the more mature have not dulled their physical or spiritual sensitivities by excess or disuse, they can also experience joy in what is simple and basic.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Children, Simple

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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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• 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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• 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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• To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Reality, Psychics

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.143, Penguin

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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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• The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Giving Up, Character, Acting

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• Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Firsts, Steps, Worship

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• I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.

  Rosa Parks

  Moving, Mind, Firsts

  "Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation".

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• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  Patrick Ewing

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Ego, Agents

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• All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Writing, Adversity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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