"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step” is a saying that has been printed on many images. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life” was posted on Twitter by psychologist and author Gemma Stone on November 16, 2011.
“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step” was posted on Twitter by Gemma Stone on November 19, 2011. Naeem Callaway has been infrequently credited with the saying since 2017, but did not originate it.
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Gemma Stone
@Gemma_Stone
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
9:11 PM - 16 Nov 2011
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Kari Dunlop
@KariDunlop
Love this Gem! RT @Gemma_Stone Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
2:37 AM - 17 Nov 2011
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Gemma Stone
@Gemma_Stone
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
Tip toe if you must, but take the step.
9:30 AM - 19 Nov 2011
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Mary Jane’s PACE Page - Positive Attitude Changes Everything shared Gemma Stone’s photo.
November 1, 2012 ·
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.
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Bishop Dale Bronner
@BishopBronner
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must but take the step!
11:35 AM - 30 Nov 2012
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Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!:
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By Lori Greiner
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
2014
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“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip-toe if you must, but take the first step.” —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
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Mar 22, 2016
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6. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.” - Unknown
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Dr. Paul Fanuele
@pfanuele
AHS Quote of the Day: “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step in your life. N Callaway #AHSQOD
7:35 AM - 31 Mar 2017
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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