You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.
The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.
If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. " (from "The Third and Final Continent")
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Lengthen your stridego the extra mile
I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.
You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.
Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.
No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!
and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away
By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we've gotten better.