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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on. -- Gavin DeGraw
It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. -- Alexander Wang
If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall. -- Cyndi Lauper
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft. -- Steven Sinofsky
Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.' -- Jennifer Hudson
I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that. -- Brian McKnight
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. -- Jesse James Garrett
I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back. -- Marc Guggenheim
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me. -- Veronica Roth
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. -- Nia Long
Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back. -- Christina Grimmie
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on -- Gavin DeGraw
If you have a setback, Don't take a step back- Get ready for a comeback! -- Tim Storey
The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. -- Garance Dore
We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do. -- Mark Zuckerberg
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa. -- Augusten Burroughs
For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful. -- Charlize Theron
I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet. -- Nikki Reed
Sometimes, you just have to take a step back and realise what's important in your life, what you can live with, and more importantly, what you can't live without. -- Lauren Conrad
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own -- Jesse James Garrett
The most recent was my match against Daniel Bryan at Fastlane. He kicked my scar from my recent hernia surgery. That was painful. I needed to take a step back from training that next day! -- Roman Reigns
It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine. -- Maggie Q
When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too. -- Curtis Stone
Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking? -- America Ferrera
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. -- Teri Garr
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. -- Malcolm X
Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward. -- Vince McMahon
When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. -- LL Cool J
Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back. -- Ted Cruz
If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users. -- Sundar Pichai
I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! -- Lonnie Earl Johnson
We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit. -- John King
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. -- Donny Osmond
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step. -- Al Michaels
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. -- Bob Ross
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. -- Janine di Giovanni
The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled. -- Andy Warhol
It's time for you to step up with courage and fight tirelessly to take back all that your fears and doubts have stolen from you. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back. -- Theresa Larsen
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top. -- Jacqueline Susann
Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now. -- Nhat Hanh

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