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• By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

  Harvey Mackay

  Agreement, Way, Chance

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• Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Faith, God

  "Pope Francis Celebrates Easter Sunday", abcnews.go.com.

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• All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Change, Mean, Play

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• It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.

  Regina Brett

  Positive, Children, Book

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.

  Dianna Agron

  Jobs, Two, Careers

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.

  James Jeans

  Knowledge, Science, Fog

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• I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

  George Carlin

  Usual, Sociopath, Stage

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

  Bill Joy

  Intelligent, Robots, Copies

  "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, www.wired.com. April 1, 2000.

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• Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.322, U of Nebraska Press

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• . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Moon, Ideas

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Believe, Long, Next

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• The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Goal, Definitions, Steps

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• Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Plot

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Steps

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Name of God Is Mercy”, p.50, Random House

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• There are no small steps in great affairs.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Political, Campaigns, Affair

  Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1817). “Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars”, p.394

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• A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

  Herb Caen

  Crazy, Odds, Concrete Jungle

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• But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

  Louis Sachar

  Trying, Together, Way

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Small Steps”, p.255, A&C Black

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• For many of us, it's too difficult to jump in to vegan full on because it's just so different than the way we grew up eating. But if we take small steps - like replacing cow's milk with almond or soy milk, or using veggie sausage instead of sausage made from animals - we can keep enjoying the things we grew up loving, just better versions of them.

  Kathy Freston

  Animal, Soy Milk, Different

  "Kathy Freston: On How to Become a Veganista". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Moving, Differences, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

  Angela Merkel

  Running, Risk, Important

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• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a longer time than we think or hope. There can be missteps along the way, when we falter or lose heart, but we can reset our course and move forward again, even if it is only one small step at a time. As well as praying for forgiveness, we can also plead for courage, and it will come. If we do so, steady but surely, we will rise from the miry depths of sin and emerge into the sunny uplands of forgiveness and hope.

  David S. Baxter

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  Paddy Considine

  Hate, Army, Roles

  "And the winner is ..." by Craig McClean, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Spurs

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Courage, Believe, Thinking

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