I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it
Quotes about stepping-stone (15 Quotes)
I'm trying to keep this game under control, but at one point I look over and Bird and Dr. J are strangling each other. I ejected both. The NBA started looking at me in a different way after that, saw my leadership qualities, and that was a stepping-stone for me.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
This is just a stepping-stone for us. We have one more game and we have to make the best of it.
I'm 63 years old and I have no higher political aspiration than the Oldsmar City Council. This is not a stepping-stone for me.
The Dragons understand that Luke's committed to a career in the NBA and would be delighted if he were to use our club as a stepping-stone to the NBA.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Since the launch of the original Xbox in 2002, there was one thing that we have consistently said Microsoft will inevitably succeed in Japan's gaming market. I believe that this year will be the stepping-stone to that success. The Xbox 360, which was released last December, is not just the only next-generation console available in the market, but it will also continue to be the best console for years to come. The Xbox 360 is a well-balanced console with high hardware capabilities. Furthermore, it is easy to exploit its capabilities to produce high-quality next-generation games.
I think she has her eye on the Olympics, and this is obviously a stepping-stone toward that. Training at the Olympic facility will be wonderful, and it'll raise her exposure. That Olympic team is going to be a pretty difficult team to make.
We will use this to learn and as a stepping-stone. I think the real test of the team mentally would be that when those things happen, when adversity pops up, you learn from it and use it to make yourselves better.
You'll see people doing short films and people doing features specifically for the Net, as opposed to people using it as a stepping-stone.
That was just a stepping-stone there are still some great runners to face, but it's good to have the competition.
This just reaffirms what we've been saying all along This is a big-time basketball school with a big-time basketball coach. Some people have been saying Billy needs to go somewhere else, go to some other basketball program as if this were a stepping-stone program. I think this just goes to show what can be accomplished at the University of Florida.