“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.”
Walter Benjamin
“We're in a stage of our season, and we've had already two or three stages like this, when we have to persevere.”
George Karl
“We've got three guys that practice there and are dead even, but when you get out there on center stage, you've got to perform.”
Daryl Patton
“We're anxious for them not to do that at [stages] 3 or 4. When we know Stage 3 is imminent. We want to schedule the civic workshop. Our citizens start to feel pain at Stage 3, when they can't wash their car and have to restrict water, and they have to have a venue to discuss it with city staff.”
Steve Massey
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Charles Darwin
“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“I knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to lose”
Svetlana khorkina