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Step Quotes

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Lao Tzu

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

– Heraclitus

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

– Gustav Heinemann

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader’s opportunities to follow it at every step.

– Harry Mathews

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

– Harvey Pekar

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.

– Howard Coble

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn’t really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train.

– Helena Bonham Carter

You can’t just keep recycling revivals. And you can’t keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who’ve been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

– Harold Prince

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

– Horace

I live in Soho in lower New York; there’s tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.

– Hanya Yanagihara

It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.

– Graydon Carter

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

– Giovanni Agnelli

Kagoshima is the first step in our plan to develop increased scheduled air links between Hong Kong and Japan, especially the southern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa.

– Helmut Sohmen

I’m proudest of the fact that I fell in step with an audience taste level that I knew how to judge and maybe deliver for, and consistently.

– Glen A. Larson

You cannot step into the same river twice.

– Heraclitus

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

– Howard Carter

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

– Halle Berry

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he’s had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

– Hannah Storm

The first step… shall be to lose the way.

– Galway Kinnell

I’d rather have people really be able to step back and get their money’s worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

– Haley Reinhart

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

– Howard Staunton

From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I’m very grateful I can still make a living from it.

– Honeysuckle Weeks

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don’t have a good-luck story are the ones who don’t make it.

– Giles Duley

The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

– George A. Sheehan

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

– Haley Reinhart

If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.

– Helmut Lang

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

– Goran Ivanisevic

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can’t step up and provide.

– Hanna Rosin

I’m currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.

– Haley Webb

I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn’t know where it was going to go. So I thought, ‘I’m going to do everything that you’re not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I’m going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I’m not going to worry about how things connect until later on.’

– Hari Kunzru

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