Stepping Back Quotes

• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

  Criss Jami

  Extremes, Observing, Values

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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• You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Fall, Missing

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Self, Breathing

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Life, Memories

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.

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• Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

  Jane Smiley

  Community, Individualism, Progressive

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.

  Reince Priebus

  Running, Jobs, Perspective

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Feels, Connected

  "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Permission, Should, Touch Me

  "Die, Bundle of Twigs!". Live chat, www.slate.com. January 5, 2016.

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• The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

  Craig Charles

  Dark, Inventory, Sometimes

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• I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Appreciate, Value Of Life, Values

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• What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Self, Two, Judging

  Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

  Sara Bareilles

  Team, Pride, Joy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

  Eric Weiner

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.

  Rondal Partridge

  Past, Views, Garbage

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• I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Football, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Very well,” he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.” He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. “No one likes to feel superfluous.” Grace just stared at him. “Rendered mute by my grace and charm,” he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. “It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn‟t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.

  Julia Quinn

  Grace, Secret, Today

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.

  Kevin Rose

  Success, Business, Ideas

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• Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

  Andy Puddicombe

  God, People, Meditation

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• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Pride, Thinking, Order

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• She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

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• Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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