Starting Quotes

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

The past does not define, you the present does.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Talent is only the starting point.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Talent is only a starting point.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

I wouldn't count it out, but right now I feel like my career is still just starting. The best years are yet to come.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.