Browsing Topic Best Starting Quotes

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it’s so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback – that just has a good ring to it.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

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

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

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

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

People saying, ‘Life didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to.’ Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Talent is only the starting point.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

It’s only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

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

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists – as starting revolutions – does not exist in most people’s minds. And I think it’s very, very important that folks understand how much America was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.

When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn’t know this wasn’t the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it’s nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it’s nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.

It’s interesting to see what’s going on with physics these days because they’re starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably like Buddhism and even more specifically like the ancient Hindu Vedas. Physics isn’t necessarily saying the exact same thing but I think eventually it will merge.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league – starting, of course, from the bottom up.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it’s still quite a long way off.