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“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.”

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Author:Nido R Qubein

“When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.”

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Book:LL Cool J's Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle: A Full-Circle Guide to Developing Your Mind, Body, and Soul

Source: LL Cool J's Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle: A Full-Circle Guide to Developing Your Mind, Body, and Soul

“To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.”

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Book:Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

Source: Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

“Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.”

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Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?”

“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”

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Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.”

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Author:Dogen

“Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.”

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Author:Robin Sharma

“They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.”

“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.”

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Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“The first step of a journey is always the longest.”

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Book:Miles to Go

Source: Miles to Go

“Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.”

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Author:Eliphas Levi

“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.”

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Author:Jean Kerr

“Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.”

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Author:Gary Snyder

“If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“Awareness is always the first step.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.”

“Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.”

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Author:William A. Henry III

“I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.”

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Author:Fred Ritchin

“Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.”

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Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-”

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Book:The Signature of Jesus

Source: The Signature of Jesus

“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

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Author:William James

“Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.”

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Author:David S. Ware

“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.”

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Author:Josh Groban

“And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.”

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Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.”

Firsts Steps Impossible Remains First Steps Steps Forward

Author:Chris Murray

“The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.”

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Author:Zelig Pliskin

“The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.”

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Book:The Dialogues

Source: The Dialogues

“Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.”

“Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.”

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Book:Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

“We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.”

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Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have. Acknowledging what you have, and at the same time, acknowledging what other folks don't have. And you know, you don't have to feel guilty about it, but definitely to feel grateful is the first step in giving it back.”

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Author:Thao Nguyen

“When we combine acceptance with self-responsibility we can then see that whenever we are in a painful or disturbing situation we have two choices: We can work compassionately to bring something positive to the situation or leave. However, the key is the mental stance that we make the choice from, and thus the first step is always accepting the moment without resistance.”

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Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.”

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Author:Regina Taylor

“Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.”

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Author:Robert Paul Weston

“Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.”

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Author:Jed Diamond

“We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy - even in today's deeply troubled world.”

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Author:Ross Gelbspan

“The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.”

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Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.”

“The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.”

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Author:Karen Salmansohn

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