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“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

Firsts Bigs Happens Action Acting Steps Break Plans Prejudice Planning First Steps Bias Biased Small Steps

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”

“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.”

World Giving Desire Steps Listening Discipline Essentials Giving Up Prejudice Shoes Setting Settings Temporary Speakers Frame Of Reference

Author:M. Scott Peck

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

Certain Fall Literature Steps Prejudice Dancing Dance Falling In Love Affection Jane Just Dance Inspirational Dance Pride And Prejudice Pride Dance Love Dance Steps Dance Partner

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.”

World Kind Steps Clear This World Prejudice Longing Myth Confusion Permanent Texas Distortion Fables Preconceptions Appraisal

Author:John Steinbeck

“When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.”

Made Order Differences Steps History Written Diversity Pages Prejudice Safety Angry Rewards Tolerance Dust Settling Privacy Intolerance Defenders Prevailing Religious Tolerance

Author:John Shelby Spong

“People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway”

People Ifs Needs Firsts Problem Steps Racism Prejudice Bigotry First Steps Identifying Terminology

Author:Neal Boortz

“Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

“When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.”

World Behinds Steps Normal Prejudice Barriers Usual Adventurous

Author:Paulo Coelho