Next Steps Quotes - Page 6

• If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

  Bob Goff

  Bigs, Signals, Cosmic

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• I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Careers, Creative, Lasts

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: on being stereotyped, his deep-fried childhood, and letting failure make you stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, fyeahiananthonydale.tumblr.com. 2016.

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• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Impossible Things

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Retirement, Pay

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Moon

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

  Louis Leterrier

  Fighting, Winning, Superhero

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• Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

  Dave Ramsey

  Excellence, Ordinary, Next

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• We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.

  Martin O'Malley

  Safe Haven, Collaboration, Alliances

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Writing, People

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• If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

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• What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

  Alan Watts

  Discipline, Giving, Understanding

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• The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Rottweilers, Intimidation, Ceremony

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.1069, Vintage Canada

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• Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one’s goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Distance, Eye

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• I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, My Own, Next

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.115, Hamilton Books

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• If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  War, Waiting, Steps

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• You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

  Jackie Morris

  Journey, Hardest, Traveled

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• It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

  Frank Ocean

  Writing, Stories, Kind

  "Frank Ocean Says Debut Album Will 'Define' Him". www.mtv.com. January 6, 2012.

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• We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

  Aaron Boone

  Team, Reality, Years

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• The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.

  Alice Bailey

  Moon, Doors, May

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• Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Perfect, Would Be

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• I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe in deciding each case in the most limited way possible, because common law judges have a firm belief that the best development of the law is the one that lets society show you the next step, and that next step is in the new facts that each case presents.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Philosophy, Believe, Law

  Source: progressive.org

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• ... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Tombstone, Evil, Tolerance

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.193, University of Virginia Press

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• When it comes to exploring your creative side, it's very easy to think of all the reasons you can't do it-you don't have the time, you don't have the money, etc.-but if you are truly passionate about expressing yourself, you can find a way. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning. Take the next step and the next until what you've dreamed about begins to become reality.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Simple, Reality, Thinking

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• If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Reading, Color

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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