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"Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off."
"Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river."
"No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again."
"You can never step in the same river twice."
"Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief."
"It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie."
"Art is a step in the known toward the unknown"
"Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time."
"I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!"
"The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine."
"And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven."
"Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps."
"At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned."
"When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz."
"And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible."
"You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it."
"I want a president who'll look out for American interests. Every treaty we sign has a provision that a president of the United States, if he or she concludes that it's no longer in the interest of the country should step back from it."
"Awareness is always the first step."
"The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps."
"I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million."
