Steps Quotations | Page 3

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps

The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It's a fun way to see how far I've walked - how many steps I've taken when I'm walking around different cities.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.