Steps In The Right Direction Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis Sachar, Thomas Frank, Kara Goucher, Poul Henningsen, Bob Beauprez and many others.
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn’t have – until recently – were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That’s what the ‘kids for cash’ judges were apparently experimenting with.
Don’t try to rush progress. Remember — a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded “reactionary”.
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as ‘a step in the right direction.’ But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn’t even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that’s a step in the right direction.
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.
I wholeheartedly encourage any steps in the right direction, in whatever time frame works for the person on the path.
Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected…but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done
It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can’t ever take the next step until you take the first.
