Just One Step Quotes

#1. A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

Noam Chomsky

#2. I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

P.C. Cast

#3. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#4. Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

Charles Koch

#5. Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Jeannette Walls

#6. One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

Marianne Williamson

#9. The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#10. Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

John Bonham

#11. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

#12. Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Mick Ebeling

#13. When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

Jeff Kinney

#14. It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.

Robyn Carr

#15. In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Al Roker

#16. The nuns were still just one step behind her.

Anne Taintor

#17. What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#18. I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

Jennifer Niven

#19. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

Natalie Goldberg

#20. A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

#21. And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Clint Eastwood

#22. Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Natalie Goldberg

#23. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Xinran

#24. A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

Noam Chomsky

#25. There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.

Jake Roberts

#26. I, meanwhile, was forcing my swelling feet to take just one more step while walking alone, usually too nervous to strike up a conversation with a stranger.

Various

#27. You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words, she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech.

Lauren Blakely

#28. I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

P.C. Cast

#29. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.

Shellie Palmer

#30. If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

Lawrence Lessig

#31. With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Jane Smiley

#32. The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.

Bob Newhart

#33. Well, that's growing up, isn't it?" my dad said. "You don't always have to know. And things aren't always fair. You just have to keep moving forward. A step in one direction.

Robin Benway

#34. All of this, you and me, is brand new, you're right. Let's just take this one small step at a time."
"These small steps include sex, right?

Karina Halle

#35. The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

Glenda Green

#36. I still follow that model: just go hard every day, and take it one step at a time.

Ace Hood

#37. Where is Wildene?"
"Just step out the door and holler "Sooie! Sooie! She's a ho hog if ever I saw one. She'll come running.

Carolyn Haines

#38. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#39. You compose a question and then you just start walking. Concentrate on each step. Don't think too far ahead and don't think about where you have been. But consider closely how one step leads to another. Contemplate connections and links. Immerse yourself in the pattern.

Amanda Quick

#40. One step is all it will take. Just put one foot across the threshold and we will make all the pain go away forever: the pain you feel now and the pain that is still to come. It will never happen.

Neil Gaiman

#41. Fear is just like mist. Don't let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction ... and repeat.

Erica Goros

#42. 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.

Fred Willard

#43. It just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?

Susannah Cahalan

#44. It's like you spend your whole youth being told just how awesome and special you are, but then you take one step outside and that bubble bursts.

R.E. Carr

#45. Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out and picked up the ball or the pen, the guitar or the kitchen knife, and took the first step. An then, the next.

Camille Sweeney

#46. It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#47. One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

Linda Sue Park

#48. One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of anybody for that matter. I want more than I get, that's all I know. I want you to step out of your skin - I want everybody to strip down, not just to the flesh, but the soul.

Henry Miller

#49. You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live for always, except that one day they just step sideways, without looking back or saying good-bye, and vanish forever.

Sally Nicholls

#50. We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

Pat Paulsen

#51. Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

Richard Dawkins

#52. Faith is moving ahead in obedience, dear. Just moving ahead one step at a time, trusting Him, until He shows you what's next. He'll make it clear to you eventually. Sure as anything.

Becky Wade

#53. isn't telling a girl you just loooooove eating horsemeat one step away from saying you haven't lived 'til you've eaten puppy skewers?

Rachel Dratch

#54. You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

Ridley Scott

#55. I don't fall for words, I fall for action because words always carry empty promises but one step at a time is the beginning of fulfilment. Don't say just do it! Don't announce just show it! Don't gloat just prove it!

Euginia Herlihy

#56. Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

Charles Koch

#57. I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

Henry Samueli

#58. Setting the guitar down, I stood and took a step forward to close the gap she'd created. "You need to get used to it. I don't want to be just someone to you. I want to be the only one. And I promise you, Maggie Malone, if you let me, I'll earn all of the pieces of you before I take a single one.

Pamela Sparkman

#59. Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Timothy Olyphant

#60. Wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

Isaac Marion

#61. To stay alive, we just need to move on. Even breathing is one step to move on.

Cindy Pricilla

#62. Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Jeannette Walls

#63. New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

Peter Cameron

#64. We'll just take it one step at a time.
Okay.
Don't let go.
Okay.
No matter what.
No matter what.

Cormac McCarthy

#65. Sharp. Intense. Powerful. Intoxicating.
Just like Killian.
Damn it all.
Before she could stop herself, Sadie took an involuntary step back.
Killian countered, taking one step closer, and his lips tilted into a lopsided grin.
Shit on a stick.
How annoying.

Sara Humphreys

#66. One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.

Margaret Atwood

#67. It's about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best that you can. I'm a mom and I have two husbands - an ex husband and a next husband. It's a blended family and it's very hard to keep things together, but we're happy and we live in love. Djimon and I are so happy.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#68. you just have to take one step, and that when you do, the next one will appear.

Shauna Niequist

#69. In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.

Shelley Long

#70. As you begin to see the patterns, don't move too quickly. Just take one step at a time, trusting that opportunities will open at the right time.

Jeff Goins

#71. There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Chuck Barris

#72. Just by asking for your one next step you can give yourself permission to be divinely led to the people, places and resources that will allow you to move forward.

Catherine Carrigan

#73. There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

Fergie

#74. Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.

Jayne Mansfield

#75. Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

Carl Jung

#76. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

Edie Campbell

#77. My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

Ashton Kutcher

#78. Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

Richard Paul Evans

#79. A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Ann Cleeves

#80. You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.

Kobe Bryant

#81. Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The

Dennis Lehane

#82. I blinked once, "if it's anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me... I'm tired of living through this shit just to step into deeper fucking shit. So if all you have planned for me is more torture, I think I'd rather die. Just do me one favor and don't... I don't want to die slow.

C.J. Roberts

#83. Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

George Foreman

#84. Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

Marianne Williamson

#85. The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#86. That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

Kerri Walsh

#87. Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.

Ron Garan

#88. You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.

Tori Murden

#89. No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.

Moffat Machingura

#90. Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

John Bonham

#91. Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

Adharanand Finn

#92. I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

Beck

#93. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step ... the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Dale Dauten

#94. If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

Joyce Meyer

#95. If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

#96. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

#97. Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

Kris Carr

#98. Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Paul Kantner

#99. Learn to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you're doing and just invest time in the people that you're with ... have patience with them, even if they're not necessarily the easiest person to work with.

Bethany Hamilton

#100. As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

Charles De Lint