Top 100 Bad Start Quotes
#1. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.
Keegan Bradley
#3. [H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong:;; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.
Warren Farrell
#4. Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
Joseph Heller
#5. The day I was born, March 1, 1994, Celine Dion was solid at #1 with 'The Power of Love.' Not a bad start to your life.
Justin Bieber
#6. Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
Napoleon Hill
#7. A Bad start is still a start by Tyr FaHazathant
E.E. Knight
#8. The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
P.G. Wodehouse
#9. There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.
Frank Portman
#10. Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
Gene Mauch
#11. When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.
Lewis N. Roe
#12. As I get older ... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.
Dave Grohl
#13. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#14. Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.
David Letterman
#15. It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.
Robert Kiyosaki
#16. Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
William McDonough
#17. If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#18. I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
Jonas Mekas
#19. Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.
Simon Cowell
#20. Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
Genie Francis
#21. When the rains make your feathers wet, don't sit and cry and don't wait for your wet feathers to get dry before you start to fly; start flying and your wet feathers will start drying!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really fast, and others need pruning and care ... And, finally, a song needs to move you. If it doesn't move you, it will never move anybody else.
Corey Harris
#23. The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.
Ann Robinson
#24. It's bad enough that your happiness is conditional upon your own behavior. When you start making it conditional upon other people's behavior, you're in serious trouble.
Anonymous
#26. Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse
Charles Bukowski
#27. Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.
Steve McQueen
#28. I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
Dan Gilroy
#29. If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
Chuck Thompson
#30. you think about it, being crazy isn't such a bad place to start when you need some novelty in your life.
Elgon Williams
#31. If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
Sammy Sosa
#32. You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury
#33. When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.
Martin Gore
#34. I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
Dan Bejar
#35. For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.
Neil Gaiman
#36. As time goes by, we
start to see more clearly,
and are able to see that
it wasn't all bad, and that
perhaps just perhaps
the breakup was a gift.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#37. Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.
Scot Armstrong
#38. Maybe I'm too jumpy, too untrusting. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life. I can't just click the delete key and start over.
H.M. Ward
#39. 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.
Willie Nelson
#40. That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Harlan Coben
#41. You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.
Wanda Sykes
#42. I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
Joshua Ferris
#43. 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
Dave Morris
#44. They say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming. They don't stop. They'll never stop. It's just too depressing to keep counting, so we start over after the third bad thing.
Hugh Howey
#45. When it's only Monday and my bestie is already having a horrible week, I start hunting for memes to send him so that in amongst all the pain and misery he can get really annoyed that his whatsapp is going every two minutes with pointless pictures taking up all of the space on his phone.
C.S. Woolley
#46. Darling, don't be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there, no one can stop you. Don't feel bad about anything you've done, and for God's sake, have fun.
Anna Godbersen
#47. Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
William Bennett
#48. When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.
Lana Del Rey
#49. I want to be a bad example,' she said. 'I see.' Myrtle stirred herself, ready to walk to the prow. 'Well, my dear, I think you have made an excellent start.
Frances Hardinge
#50. The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.
Rob Lowe
#51. You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.
Cormac McCarthy
#52. It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
Halsey
#53. I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.
Chris Hardwick
#55. Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.
Joyce Meyer
#56. When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. Cast
#57. There are too many brands. You can start your own brand from your bedroom. It's a good thing and a bad thing.
Mark McNairy
#58. There are two differences between an orgy and a sex club. First, at a sex club it's considered bad form to introduce yourself to someone before you start putting parts of his body in your mouth. At an orgy you are allowed to offer your name as long as you do so with an obvious sense of irony.
Joel Derfner
#59. Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#60. I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#61. Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.
(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)
Salman Rushdie
#62. Good men can make terrible kings,' Tindwyl noted.
'But bad men cannot make good kings.' Sazed said. 'It is better to start with a good man and work on the rest, I think.
Brandon Sanderson
#63. Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs
Nicki Minaj
#64. I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
Camilo Villegas
#65. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
Salma Hayek
#66. That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
Miles Davis
#67. Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.
J.R. Ward
#68. If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
Will Rogers
#69. The beauty of balance is that I can do it all and not feel bad about my choices, because every moment is an opportunity to start all over again
Jorge M. Perez
#70. In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.
Conor Oberst
#71. We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.
Lisa Kleypas
#72. In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
Joaquin Phoenix
#73. Looking back on my morning, there was definitely GOOD NEWS and BAD NEWS. The GOOD NEWS . . . ? My day had gotten off to such a HORRIBLE start, I was absolutely SURE there was NO WAY things could get any WORSE ! The BAD NEWS . . . ? I was TOTALLY WRONG about the GOOD NEWS!
Rachel Renee Russell
#74. And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
#75. Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.
Stacy Keach
#76. When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
Menander
#77. People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.
Lara Stone
#78. Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.
Garrison Keillor
#79. You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.
James Mattis
#80. I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
Serena Williams
#81. There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.
Michael Ealy
#82. Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I'm in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
David Anthony Durham
#83. I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
Jeffrey Jones
#84. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.
James Nicoll
#85. I don't care about any of it. All I want to do is lean forward and kiss him. Steal him away from the bad stuff, convince him to start over because I believe he isn't beyond saving yet.
K.A. Tucker
#86. There's a para-phrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky ... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.
Colin Firth
#87. Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn't give a damn. Pretty soon he'll probably start being proud of it.
Neal Stephenson
#88. Sometimes it takes a lot of really bad times all lined up in a row before you get yourself together to start having some good ones.
C.J. Berry
#89. Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days
Barry Moltz
#90. I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them
the bad kids and the good kids and all kids
as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
John Green
#91. You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.
Gail Sheehy
#92. Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
LaToya Jackson
#93. I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.
Heather Demetrios
#94. But Neve, you can't start a book and leave it halfway through,' he'd said implacably. 'It's almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.
Sarra Manning
#95. No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
Mac Anderson
#96. Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.
Margaret Atwood
#97. Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
#98. But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have - time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning - I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
#99. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
Barack Obama
#100. There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
Hunter S. Thompson
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