Steps Quotes - Page 8

• I have a strong hips and groin. It's the leg speed, the way I approach the ball. My first step is not very hard, but my second is explosive.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Strong, Balls, Legs

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• To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

  Randy Pausch

  Small Steps, Lists, Helping

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Memories, Father, Teaching

  "Autobiography". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1960.

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• The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Reality, Light

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• I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

  Carrie Underwood

  Husband, Writing, People

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• Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps.

  Venus Williams

  Fall, People, Littles

  Venus Williams during Wimbledon Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. June 25, 2009.

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Yield, World, Description

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• And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.

  Geneva Overholser

  Moving, Taken, Media

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• If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.

  George Foreman

  Ifs, Doing Right

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• You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Past, Miracle, Littles

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• If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

  Julia Sweeney

  Looks, Common, Mature

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• A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

  Laozi

  Successful, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

  Brian Dyson

  Journey, Race, Yesterday

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• Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hollywood, Firsts, Accomplish

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• Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Balance, Feminism, Together

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• Step Up doesn't have to hide anything. These are actually moves that people do. It just so happens that dancers are superheroes. People think there is a lot of wire work or camera tricks, but that's just not the case.

  Stephen Boss

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• We often put off doing something for as long as possible, then as we finally make the decision and step into the action, we're surprised by its relative ease. We're left to wonder why we dreaded it until we realize that most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

  Robert McKee

  Long, Decision, Ease

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• Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Belief, Certain

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• At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Moments

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• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

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• A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Self Esteem, Add

  "It helps me to clear my mind" by George W Bush, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2002.

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• One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

  Emily Dickinson

  One Step At A Time

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• Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Trying, Comfort, Should

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• The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Eye, Iran, Years

  Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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