The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
"Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein" is an American writer, lawyer, actor and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.
Stein has frequently written commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors. He is the son of economist and writer Herbert Stein, who worked at the White House under President Nixon. His sister, Rachel, is also a writer. While, as a character actor, he is well known for his droning, monotone delivery, in real life he is a public speaker on a wide range of economic and social issues.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous actors! More Ben Stein on Wikipedia.Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
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