Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.
When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain.
Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day
If you don't care about the people around you or treat them as if they don't matter, you'll stop the flow of possibilities. This includes your financial prosperity. Creating a vehicle for good that you feel passionate about is the final step toward true prosperity.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.
I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.