Treading Quotations

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.

One can emancipate himself only by treading on the path of truth.

Given that we're at least a couple of months away from turnaround in the labor market, the fact that consumer confidence is not doing much worse than treading water is actually a good-news story.

He has no time for book learning or pussy-footing about. He wants to show these young men and women what they're up against - evil exists and they better know what they're getting themselves into. He's a one-man initiation ceremony, a walking rite-of-passage. He doesn't believe in treading lightly with Harry or the other students because that won't prepare them for the real world.

Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.

Some of the guys have located housing, but some of us are kind of treading water until we sell our house. I still own a house in (Philadelphia). I can't afford to have a mortgage and pay rent. I can't do both.

People in the middle are sort of treading water. People at the lower end are still falling behind.

I think they're treading on sacred ground. It's just not a football thing, either. You have girls' basketball going on, cross country, golf and soccer. Communities celebrate that, especially in the smaller ones. There's no room for college athletics Monday through Thursday. I know where (fans') loyalties will lie. They'll lie with the younger kids.

I think if the Interior gets involved in undermining the decision-making right of a sovereign nation, they are treading on very shaky ground,

Treading lightly with the water we've got and waiting for more will ensure that there's plenty when summer comes.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known

We have not had bishops tell us we're treading on the bishops' authority. If they did, we would back off.

What we're going to see I suspect from now on is the bonds market treading water somewhat as awaits signs of another rate cut. There's not a lot of direction outside of that.

We're actually treading on some new territory because certainly nobody wants this to develop into a global trade war. What they could do in order to enforce any type of mandate on the merger is do things like levy fines.

We're treading a really fine line on this, and there is a debate among people in Washington about what we should do,

We're treading new ground here. We've got a lot of critters up here, we've got lots of good security with the timber, and we've got incredible human growth.

We're treading water today. With most of Wall Street on vacation, I think that's all we'll be doing until after Labor Day.

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey government wants their life jackets.

We were fortunate to get a point, and we're happy to have it. We were treading water for a while.

The sheriff is treading uncharted territory. He's going to need a little assistance from some-one with knowledge in that background. We're not out to make Sheriff Beck an enemy. If you really think about it, we have Sheriff Beck to thank for all of this.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

They (state school board members) are allowing the intelligent-design minority to bypass the scientific community. While not specifically mentioning religious concepts, it's advancing a sectarian religious view. They're treading on some constitutional grounds here.

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

Yet another survey of the economy is suggesting sustainable strength. Rates backed up a little because of this report, but you're treading water a bit because of payrolls data lurking on Friday.

The past couple of years I've felt like I'm treading water, ... But this is the kind of course I've won on. It's just a matter of getting everything into shape.

If rates keep backing up we'll definitely have the stock market treading water for awhile.

Sun is marking time, treading water on revenues.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

They are treading water to see what's going to happen.

A person treading on the sinful path is not only criticized but is also full of blemishes.

For all of us, as storytellers, this feels like the year the show should end. Of course, it could have gone on longer, but to a degree, it would have been treading water. This feels like the proper end to what the show was when it started out.

Follow 'this' path... it is easily accessible and the cart can move freely on it.... treading on which the brave ones do not get vanquished and which also provides better prospects for earning wealth.

At first, we spent a lot of time treading water and not really knowing which songs we were doing and which way we were going, ... And then we locked into the right groove. Everything really came together in the last three months. It just took a long time to find our feet, so to speak.

The Reserve Bank is very firmly on hold. The housing market is treading water. Investors no longer have the opportunity to get big capital gains, so they have left the market.

It's a stock which is not treading much volume these days, but it does move in quite large swings.

A 'brahmachari' (a celibate) acts in such a way that treading the paths of both earth and heaven becomes a pleasurable experience; that is why all the Gods always dwell with him(in his heart).

For the longest time I just felt like I was treading water,

The market is treading water now with the long weekend coming up...people don't want to be exposed over a long weekend at the moment.

The market, I think, is treading water and needs more than Oracle.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.