"You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at."

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Source : Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.392, Apress

Jessica Livingston

#Moving Quotes #Want Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.”
“I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.”
“Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.”

Source : Victoria Laurie (2007). “What's A Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery”, p.7, Penguin
“It's just that the nature of being a director is being incredibly overwhelmed with getting the shots right, dealing with the locations, and then there's a two-year-old in the scene, and all that stuff - you know, there's a lot of kids in scenes.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The call to adventure is the point in a personâ€™s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.”
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.”
“people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!”

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