Stepping Outside Your Quotes

#1. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Masaru Ibuka

#2. Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Andy Stanley

#3. Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Buzz Aldrin

#4. You could open the door, Frances whispers. Find your way through the steam, not even bothering to remove your clothes before stepping in with him.
His hands could slide along where your thin shirt molds against your hips. His fingers could find the hem, slowly gather it, inching higher.

Carrie Ryan

#5. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Napoleon Hill

#6. They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

Steven Tyler

#7. Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#8. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

Glen Duncan

#9. Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Tony Jaa

#10. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

Dave Eggers

#11. I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Billy Ray Cyrus

#12. Looking at her was like stepping into a patch of spring sunlight after the harshest winter.

Kate Evangelista

#13. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Tommy Shaw

#14. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

Jay Asher

#15. The power of habits is the stepping stone on the stairs of life.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.

Honore De Balzac

#18. There are no mistakes in life, only stepping stones to the path you were meant to be on!

Heather Schwartz

#19. I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

Tippi Hedren

#20. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.

Brad Willis

#21. I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Vanessa Hudgens

#22. Stepping out of the kitchen, Ben glared at him. "I have no problem kicking your ass."

"I'm sure there are a lot of things you like to do with asses.

Ashlan Thomas

#23. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

Jason Priestley

#25. We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Teresa Mummert

#26. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#27. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

Tara Brach

#28. And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

Gregory Maguire

#29. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

Deborah Harkness

#30. Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Dan Miller

#31. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

#32. I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Tyra Banks

#33. I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#34. I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

Jason Chaffetz

#35. He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead

Catherine Anderson

#36. Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Arianna Huffington

#37. I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

Rob Corddry

#38. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

Teresa St. Frances

#39. Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

David L. Ulin

#40. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

Joyce Meyer