Starting Quotes

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Courage is crossing a starting line.

Keep starting until you finish.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

I've still got a lot left in the tank. I think people are starting to see I've got a lot left in the tank.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.