I think about the notion of progress; sometimes it does feel like two steps forward, one step back. And that just means you can’t get complacent.
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
‘The Madison’ we three weeks rehearsed in a nightclub. Brasseur and Frey didn’t know how to dance. A choreographer had to teach us how to do the steps.
My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.
I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
In life, there’s a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there’s a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down… just because you don’t want to face the decloaking in the mirror.
In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.
I want to see businesses identifying where the highest risks of modern slavery are in their business and supply chains and take targeted steps to address those risks.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
The Congress-led UPA government is not releasing development funds and criticizing my government for not taking adequate steps for development. This shows that Congress is only playing politics for electoral gains and is not serious about development of the state.
Get yourself a pedometer. It’s an inexpensive device that fits in your pocket or clips on your pants and counts your steps.
Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you’re aware of that, you can take steps to change.
I actually fell down the steps on ‘Ninja Warrior.’
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.
Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.
There is a system set up that we live in, and I’ve got to use that system and fight the revolution from within. It’s about taking steps against the bankers, corporations and people trampling all over human rights.
You know, it’s been President Clinton’s dream that we’ll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that’s a commitment.
My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
Dancing is just like racing. You don’t learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It’s very much like what I do in racing.
But when it really happens I’m very fascinated, I’m waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I’m just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, ‘I’ll never take money for my writing!’ I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.
I’d long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven’t got to them yet.
Here in Connecticut, we continue to take the necessary steps to save lives and protect loved ones and we are calling on all elected officials to do the same.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn’t do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn’t.
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s – a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps – was all baloney. I used to say, ‘I know reporters. We’re not like that.’ But we are.
When I was producing ‘Formula Vol. 2,’ I knew I needed to come hard with the features and do something I hadn’t done with Aventura. Collaborating with Drake was definitely one of those big steps that helped bachata go to the next level.
My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don’t make the bold steps slower.
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
I have taken the steps to freeze my eggs.
America has taken small baby steps of progress towards having more inclusion and diversity in Hollywood. It’s optimistic.
Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I’d say ‘no.’ But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
Whatever steps in the cage against me, I will fight, because I have the belt, I’m No. 1 on the planet, and I want to keep staying here.
What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and take forward steps from the first race.
Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts.
A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps… People don’t understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
I’ve been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I’m able to worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival.
I’m not a mainstream artist. But I’ve seen my kids being born; I’ve seen them take their first steps, I’ve seen them grow up and start school. That’s worth more to me than any umpteen million dollars.
To enhance ease of doing business, the government has taken multiple steps to simplify procedures, rationalise rules, and increased use of technology.
The president can take steps to make sure the American public knows what its Justice Department and FBI have been up to.
To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?
