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“Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.”

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Author:Adrian Lyne

“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.”

Thinking Feels Stories Body Reading Next My Own Steps Reader Creating Defined Next Steps

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.”

Thinking Shows Able Artist Steps New York West Size China Gallery Amazing Things Elevators Craziness Weirdness

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.”

Thinking Said Important Country Fighting President Realizing Steps Drug Trade Corruption Addresses Endeavor Governance Step Up Inaugural Inaugural Address

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Difficult Steps Needed

Author:John Slattery

“I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.”

People Thinking Problem Bigs Social President Steps Successful Security Admire Social Security Polls President Bush Step Up Big Problems

Author:Donna Shalala

“Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.”

Thinking Country Steps Comedy Wonderful Actresses

Author:Fred Willard

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Thinking Knows Giving Writing Book Able Language Answers Walks Steps Class Trouble Feet Give Me Magazines Coaching Yarn Centipedes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.”

Thinking Knows Can Do Mistake Leader Steps Worst Guts Reverse Worst Things Step Up

Author:Jeff Zucker

“Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.”

People Thinking Long Young Stuff Cities Steps Millions Five New York Areas Breaths Moved Busy Realising Farms Transition Dirt Centre Where You Come Dirt Roads

Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

“I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.”

Thinking Firsts Steps Recovery First Steps Addict Admitting

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.”

People Thinking Helping Bigs Steps Team Discovery Features Users Pipeline Functionality Reddit Mods

Author:Yishan Wong

“I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Would Be Spirit Steps Mankind Flesh

Author:Catherine Crowe

“Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves. Simply by making a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and all people, you will have completed the first and most important step in learning to accentuate the positive.”

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Author:Sue Thoele

“Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.”

Thinking Knows Want Would Be Next Steps Right Now Supposed To Be Temporary Where You Are Somewhere Else Next Steps Wherever You Are Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.”

“And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.”

“To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.”

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Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Steps Baby Institutions Baby Steps

Book:Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

Source: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

“I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.”

Thinking Would Be Accepting Steps Europe Satisfaction Midst Formulas Croatia

Author:Stjepan Mesic

“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.”

Thinking Humans Life Is Goal Steps Greater Greatness Keys Habit Roots Leap Small Steps

Author:Robert Genn

“People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Seems Asks Steps Player Negative Ask Me Insult Ems Keyboards New Music Keyboard Players

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Bigs Steps Taken Hardest First Steps

Author:Steve Jobs

“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Looks Problem Might Natural Steps Planets Bird Response Disappear Scales Eras Hopeless Meaningless Natural World Oh Well

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.”

Thinking Knows Humans Kind Next Levels Steps Planets Evolution Moon All Kinds Mars Next Steps Inevitability Human Evolution

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.”

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Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.”

Thinking Steps Journey Single Step

Author:Jeff Olson

“If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.”

Ifs Thinking World Steps Class Products Outstanding World Class

Author:Matt Cutts

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began.So, is it a step back? A regression?Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction?Use your moment of relief well.”

“If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Hard Guy Loses Steps Honest Spots Persona

Author:Michael Bastian

“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”

Thinking Littles Moving Grows Steps Tree Fields Roots Bounds Size Fishes Tiny Dependent Lakes Domain Adapted Full Potential Goldfish Open Fields

Book:Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

Source: Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kind Real Lying Values Animal Steps Masters Cages Horns Dilemma Tamed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

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Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.”

People Thinking Together Steps Five Magic Blow Unexpected Unusual

Author:Michael Jackson

“I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.”

Thinking Body Spiritual Suffering Causes Consciousness Steps Journey Changed Lovers Planes Spiritual Life Strokes Spiritual Journey Things Have Changed

Author:Ram Dass

“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.”

“Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.”

Thinking World Trying May Remember Passion Vision Steps Projects Shoes Terror Perceive Unseen Rotten Crossings Numb Whim Shrinking Gorges Circumspection

Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004

“From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!”

Thinking Action Acting Steps Irrevocable Single Step

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.”

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Author:Leo Szilard

“But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.”

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Author:Ronald Perelman

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Able Understanding Growth Steps Climbs Fifth Ladders Good Way No Hope Guarding

Book:Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Two Use Hands Steps Fronts Vacation Globes Desks Pencils Tempted Shaking Investigating Two Hands Aromatherapy

Author:Nancy Duarte