First steps Quotes · Page 9

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

— William Stanley Jevons

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

— Rosa Parks

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an…

— Aberjhani

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second…

— Paul Torday

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

— Milan Kundera

Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

— Wes Fesler

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than…

— Richard Goldschmidt

I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this…

— Tara Brach

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the…

— Michel Houellebecq

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with…

— Stanley Milgram

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your…

— Ken Robinson

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing…

— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through…

— Marianne Williamson

All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire.…

— Neville Goddard

Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those…

— Noam Chomsky

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into…

— Peter Drucker

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion…

— Tony Dungy

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is…

— George Orwell

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

— Caroline Pratt

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

— Michael Franti

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

— Jim Talent

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to…

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Georgette Mosbacher

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.

— T. B. Joshua

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.”

— Anonymous

Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability

— Howard Snell

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

— LL Cool J

I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while…

— Mick Hucknall

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.”

— Thomas Mann

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

— Dwight Longenecker

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin

To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.

— Dave Matthews

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous…

— Jonathan Haidt

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

— Elon Musk