12 Steps Quotes

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Each failure brings you one step closer to success.

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

Every time I step on the court I want to be up there with the best.

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

The spirits talk of many levels. It's not a physical level where you go up the steps to get to the next one. It's consciousness and how evolved spiritually you are.

When in doubt, take the next step.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

What a gigantic step it is not to move.

Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.