Starting Point Quotes

Generally I know that we've hit on a good idea if there's a moment where I'm going "HA HA HA!" because that's usually my starting point, me laughing.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

A lot depends on the starting point.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.

Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.