Next Steps Quotes - Page 9

One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing, Long, Intuition

"Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Keira Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you".

Ingrid Trobisch

Eye, Promise, Doe

Ingrid Trobisch (1995). “The Confident Woman: Finding Quiet Strength in a Turbulent World”, Harper San Francisco

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If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

Jan Chozen Bays

Practice, Moments, Hours

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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

Pablo Casals

Hopeless, Situation, Next

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Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Joy Bryant

Compassion, Shoes, Luxury

"Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

Charlie Worsham

Logical, Seems, Next

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The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

Sara Bareilles

Struggle, Choices, Honest

Source: www.elle.com

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While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

John B. Quigley

Moving, Ambition, Mean

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From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

Ella Baker

Long, People, League

Source: www.crmvet.org

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...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Michael Crichton

Humility, Discipline, People

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It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

Paul Bourget

Motivation, Opportunity, Thinking

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Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

Jim Elliot

Son, Men, Thinking

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There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

Thomas Paine

Men, Scarcity, Credit

Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.405

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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this
whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Taylor Swift

Wish, Trying, Lists

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I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough of that improvisation, I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.

Bob Odenkirk

Thinking, People, Looks

"Bob Odenkirk’s advice to young people: 'Get out of comedy, because it’s about to collapse'". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. November 11, 2014.

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So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

Allison Mackie

Art, Jobs, Expression

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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

Orlando Jones

Our Generation, Different, Generations

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I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Stephenie Meyer

Reading, Thinking, Creating

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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

Tara Reid

Nice, Guy, Married

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017

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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Positive, Faith

Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Alan Cohen

Peace, Firsts, Asks

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Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don’t look for his majesty. [Tweet this] We travel life’s paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans. But we don’t really expect God to show up with divine wonder.

Margaret Feinberg

Retirement, Careers, Majesty

FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Apr 21, 2013

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Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error
is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Agnes Martin

Mistake, Errors, Track

Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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