Words matter. These are the best First Step Quotes from famous people such as Rasheed Wallace, Julius Charles Hare, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Matt Drudge, Ben Stein, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I already accepted that I can’t jump no more. I’m not as fast as I used to be. I accepted that already. That’s where you become more smart, make that first step or two before that quick player can get there. I gotta make this jump shot, so I’ll give a pump fake because I know that he can jump higher than me.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
I don’t believe that we should never not talk to people we don’t agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it’s the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.
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.
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain ‘control’ over your financial destiny – pick your own stocks and execute your own trades – it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight – the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
‘First Step 2 Forever’ is a hardcover, multi-colored monstrosity that clocks in at 240 pages… half of which feature full-page pictures of the 16-year-old Bieber.
Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Awareness is the first step in healing.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like ‘Adam.’ Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike – and business owners. It’s time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.
To a straight man, the notion of walking around as a coiffed, waxed, nail-polish-wearing, lispy dude is uproariously absurd. As people, we find absurdities funny. That’s our first step in making sense of them.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Blues is the first step to get to jazz.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
First step: Build the wall. Second step: Let ICE do its job. Third step: Stop importing jihadists and welfare recipients. Fourth step: enforce e-verify to protect American jobs. Fifth step: prosecute social security card/ID theft/voting fraud.
So, the first step to opening a restaurant is, don’t. Opening a restaurant is a series of putting out fires every single day. I mean, even once you’re open, it’s still a series of putting out fires. Step one: don’t.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
I always wanted to reach pan-India audience, and ‘Avane’ is my first step towards it.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
The first step in mobility was about letting people speak to each other; then, through 3G and 4G, we saw real connectivity – which works but isn’t really designed for quality streaming. With 5G, we won’t just be able to communicate better: it will democratise machines.
It’s time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
I first read Sigmund Freud’s ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of possible ways to interpret our experience, that everything has a meaning, and that interpretation is the key to reality. This was the first step to becoming a writer.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It’s the first step to win over adversaries.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same – that we all have normal hearts – that’s the first step. I’m both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go.
