Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Man

• I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Lunch

• In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

  

  Om Puri
  • Stories
  • Actors
  • Films

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Think
  • Year
  • Grow

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Lying
  • Lie
  • Save

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Day
  • Loved

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Powerful
  • Humble

• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Faith
  • Stop
  • Moving

• They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Boy
  • Door
  • Voice

• Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Faith