"Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education."
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"You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night."
"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
"Keep walking the walk, one step at a time."
"Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born."
"The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness."
"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something."
"What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth."
"When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken."
"There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game."
"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes..."
"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
"You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things."
"There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away."
"You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury."
"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."
"I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly."
"Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself"
"Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself."