Steps Quotes - Page 36

• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  Alan Alda

  Asking, Good Enough, Boxes

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• As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Roles, Muhammad, Vans

  "The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2004.

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• Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Airports, Shopping, Car

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Wife, Social

  "Tori Amos: My family values". Interview with Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

  Kofi Annan

  Moving, Government, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

  Aristophanes

  Best Friend, Travel, Two

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• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  Mary Astell

  Aggravation, Sin, Decline

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Real, Men

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• An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Character, Responsibility

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.309, Pan Macmillan

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• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Art, Simplicity

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.458

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Taken, Men, Humanity

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Private Life, Hunted, I Can

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• The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

  Bruce Barton

  Business, Teaching, Skills

  "Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work: A Capacity Development Toolkit". Book by Marelize Görgens-Albino and Jody Zall Kusek, p. 347, 2009.

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• If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

  Melissa Bean

  Simple, Accountability, Want

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• President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Numbers, Healthy

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• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  Beck

  Way, Purpose, One Step At A Time

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• When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

  Glenn Beck

  Want, Tiptoes, Alcoholics

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• The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

  Glenn Beck

  Believe, Talking, Empowering

  "Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

  Robert Benchley

  Death, Suicide, Men

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Woven

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  Halle Berry

  Knowing, Defining, Firsts

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• The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

  Annie Besant

  Twilight, Reality, Body

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

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• I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

  Emily Blunt

  Crazy, Eye, Car

  "Fashion Interview: Emily Blunt At Gnomeo And Juliet". Interview with Zoe Griffin, blog.very.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

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