“There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.” CountrySpiritualLevelsNumbersStepsEconomicOur CountryInfrastructure Author:Carol Moseley Braun
“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.” KnowsWantChildrenWantedUniverseNextNaturalNumbersStepsKnow HowModelsBuiltComplicatedNext Steps Author:Stephen Hawking
“We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.” PeopleNeedsShouldMadeReasonMightHappensLawNumbersStepsIssuesProgressThings HappenPassingPassingsVoting Author:Clay Aiken
“Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.” TryingUsedNumbersStepsClearInfiniteSagan Author:Ann Druyan
“Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.” TwoThreeNumbersStepsOrganizationPhonesTerroristPursuePhone CallsNsa Author:Barack Obama
“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.” WorldWarRunningLinesNumbersStepsHistoryThousandGardenEmptyRemainsRoundsWar Of The WorldsEmptinessWorld War IiHolocaustImaginaryWorld War ICradleSkeletonsEmbryos Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.” IfsMenWantLifeEndsMomentsWisdomTimeHoursNumbersStepsJourneyHusbandOfficeSittingCaringMathematicianFanaticsEvery StepDurationLife TimeShortnessShortness Of Life Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.” MatterAmericaSpiritualAsksProcessDecisionNumbersAttitudeStepsKnowingAdvicePrayingBuiltStayingCounselorPleasing GodSmall Decisions Author:Mary Engelbreit
“9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealityI BelieveChallengesNumbersStepsAudienceFailingBuildingEntrepreneurshipTargetHarshNicheTarget AudienceHarsh RealityBuilding Something Author:Jeet Banerjee
“I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go” PeopleThinkingMightThreeCan DoWalksNumbersStepsSubjectsWillingArtisticExplorationLet It Go Author:Andre Dubus
“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.” TryingLooksLastsGoalNumbersStepsOughtNegativePhilosophicalRegardClimbsMetaphysicsBackwardsLadders Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors” NumbersStepsSupportIndustryOffersNuclearGoodsSpheresCommodityManufacturingStep UpAircraftBuyersNuclear PowerAerospace Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.” MeanDecisionNumbersExistenceStepsDegreesDefinitionsProofReachingQuantityFiniteAccuracyFinite Number Author:Leopold Kronecker
“I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.” PeopleFeelsLittlesTwoTermNumbersBehindsStepsHappeningsFemaleCamerasDecadesJadedJessicaJessica Jones Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.” IfsMindGuyWinningNumbersStepsRolesTranslate Author:Pau Gasol
“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.” IfsSometimesFeelingsHandsInspirationHappensAgeNumbersConsciousnessStepsTearsPoetFineUnderstoodStrongerNotionThings HappenEndlessDivinityEcstasyFloodToesStrainRelaxedLagOutburst Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.” IfsDoeTwoReasonLastsNumbersStepsLimitsAchievementInfiniteSupremeRecognitionRealisingExcess Author:Blaise Pascal