T Quotes
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“The first step in solving a problem is awareness. The second step is getting to the root of the problem, not just treating the symptoms. In our modern society we are obsessed with treating symptoms of bullying that have been going on for thousands of years. Will we ever go back? Will we ever realize that to live and let live doesn't just apply to humans? Will we ever stop bullying nature, other species, and ourselves? I doubt it, but now that you're aware of what we've done, what we are doing, and what our true nature is, what will you do?; because the third step in solving a problem is action.”
Source: Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About
“The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one.”
“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.”
“The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”
“The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.”
“The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.”
“The first step in that preparation begins now, well ahead of the relapse. Get out a three by six index card and write these thoughts on it:
- 1-800-273-8255 (National Suicide Prevention Hotline)
- This will pass
- My brain can’t be trusted right now
- I won’t kill myself today (I can always do it tomorrow)
- For now, I will IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE
- 1-800-273-8255”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“The first step in that preparation is to simply accept the fact that they might relapse. This is not intended to plan for or give an excuse to relapse. It is instead an acceptance of the fact that before they will be free of their gambling problem for good, the odds are that they will relapse.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”
“The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.”
“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.”
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
Source: The Teaching of Reverence for Life
“The first step in the journey is to lose your way.”
“The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .”
“The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.”
“The first step in winning is the willingness to try.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.”
“The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.”
“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.”
“The first step is always identifying both the certainties and uncertainties.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.”
Source: The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought
“The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.”
“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.”
“The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.”
“The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.”
“The first step is the hardest.”
“The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.”
“The first step is the same for all of us: put down the cigarette, or your preferred nicotine-based weapon of choice. The next step, and the one after, and the one after that, for as long as it takes for the veil of illusion to lift – and lift it will, I promise you, if you give time time – is a walk in the park, compared to your life as a smoker. Just keep on walking. Trust yourself. Trust the process. Trust anything, but the lies your nicotine addiction is telling you.”
“The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.”
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
“The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.”
“The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.”
“The first step is to forget all the ideas you may have in your mind about what is wrong with it as it is. Erase all your previous ideas and begin serving without exercising any conscious control over your stroke. Observe your serve freshly, as it is now.”
“The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.”
Source: The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
“The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.”
Source: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
“The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.”
“The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.”
Source: It Takes a Village
“The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.”
Source: The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
“The first step is you have to say that you can.”
“The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn`t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don`t go on copying others signatures.”
“The first step necessary in addressing the shortcomings of our lives is to acknowledge them.”
“The first step of a journey is always the longest.”
Source: Miles to Go
“The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align”
“The first step of building a good future is to recognize the reality of the present and then work through that reality.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“The first step of good democracy is to choose a good leader, or more importantly, to not choose an animal as a leader - yet we made that ghastly mistake in 2016 by electing the most non-presidential creature on earth as the leader of our United States of America. There are good presidents, there are not so good presidents, but the unique problem with the president that we chose in the previous election was that it was not even a civilized human to begin with - it was an "it" not a he or she or they, and even after being handed over the very lives of the people that savage beast showed no sign of accountability whatsoever.
Thus, we broke our democracy in 2016, but with sheer determination and conscientious persistence we have succeeded in fixing that mistake. Yes, I am filled with joy unspeakable to say out loud, that we have corrected our mistake and fixed the democracy into its usual imperfect but functional state. I say imperfect because democracy by nature is not perfect, but the problem we created last time was that we took things too far, and in the process turned a somewhat functional democracy into an absolutely dysfunctional one - in short, we broke it. And had the leader we chose been a smart one, that is, if that idiot had been not an idiot, but an actual cunning dictator, we wouldn't be celebrating our victory as a civilized people today, instead we would be mourning the burial of democracy.
Fortunately, the insane ravings of a brainless, spineless and heartless maniac will no longer have to be considered as the statements originating from the sacred office of the President of the United States of America. We have fixed the broken democracy - yes - but the problems that existed before the maniac came to power still exist today. Therefore, we may cherish the restoration of our democracy as much as we want, the real work begins now. Choosing a proper human as a President doesn't magically make the problems of our nation disappear - those problems still exist - and they'll continue to give us chills time and again, unless we as a people stand accountable, both the government and the citizenry alike, and start working on those problems. Remember, the United States of America is not the responsibility of merely the President, the Vice President and their administration, it is the responsibility of each and every one of us whose veins carry the spirit of liberty and whose nerves carry the torrents of bravery.
We have won the battle of making the White House human again, but the war has just begun - the war against systemic racism, against misogyny, against homophobia, against islamophobia, against gun violence, and against post-pandemic health and economic crisis. So, though we may celebrate the victory for a short while, we mustn't lose sight of the issues - we must now actually start working as one people - as the American people to heal the wounds on the soul of our land of liberty. It's time to once again start dreaming and working towards the impossible dream - the dream of freedom not oppression, the dream of assimilation not discrimination, and above all, the dream of ascension not descension. Never forget my friend, AMERICA means Affectionate, Merciful, Egalitarian, Responsible, Inclusive, Conscientious and Accepting.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.”
“The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.”