“Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.” MenNeedsMadeBigsBehindsStepsSuccessfulSawsAdvertisingMade It Author:Joseph Sugarman
“Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.” ShouldBookBeautifulStepsSawsPoetGrayMinorsOscarsPublishMarginsMeadowsUnwrittenWilde Author:Ada Leverson
“Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.” PeopleWorldStatesSpiritSufferingInterestChristChurchStepsSawsAtheismUnionsPurplePalacesChurch And StateAwakenedEmperorMarbleCursedUnitingConstantine Author:George W Truett
“I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.” FeelsHeartFoundDifficultStepsCareersSawsNeededGet BetterFlatsPanicTherapistsMaking PeaceHeart AttackPhoto ShootsPanic AttacksMusic Career Author:Ellie Goulding
“The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantFeelsYearsFirstsSaidSeemsRunningYoungGirlStepsSawsGrewTwentiesDressesWoodsAlcoholSurroundingsDrankSkirtsBananasSweatersOlder PeopleRosy Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.” FeelsRealRealityWould BeAbleDealsStepsKnowingSawsImpossibleCarTerribleFolksBridgesGiantsBrooklynCattleBrooklyn Bridge Author:Marion Ross
“Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.” PeopleArtBookRealizingStepsSawsPiecesPaintingPopsFinishedVarietyPhasesPuzzlesPencilsDummy Author:Tomie dePaola
“I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.” SelfStepsPathTakenSawsExpressionFindingsUltimateFollowingIndividuationExponents Author:Carl Jung
“When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.” WantFirstsLongRealGirlWalksStepsSawsMinesWalkingReal Women Author:Eddie Izzard