A Quote by Salman Rushdie

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Daniel Barenboim

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Joseph Campbell

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

Todd Gitlin

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

Kurt Schwitters

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

Dan Poynter

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

Marshall Goldsmith

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

Gustav Heinemann

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?