Begin Anywhere Quotes

#1. Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.

Ernest Holmes

#2. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

Saul Bellow

#4. Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Ralph Connor

#5. In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berger

#6. When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

#8. Some dreams never leave you, because they're more than just dreams. They're truth, distilled to purest potency.

Brian Hodge

#9. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Did my two friends lose their minds? We'd gone from hugging besties to face-slapping frienemies and now horny girls on the prowl. WTF.

Avery Aster

#11. Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

Ole Hallesby

#12. If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

Dalai Lama

#13. Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Carrie Fisher

#14. People who don't get excited about receiving gifts are tired of life.

Anna Maxted

#15. Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth, but no one saw these people anywhere; no one heard their words and voices.3

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. Do you not think that God will protect us?"
"No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

Philippa Gregory

#17. There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Bill Cosby

#18. Sometimes the things we need most in our lives are the things we don't." -LB

Logan Black

#19. What're you doing in Ankh-Morpork territorial waters, you camel-eating devil?

Terry Pratchett

#20. Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Russell Conwell

#21. I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Ben Lerner

#22. I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.

Adolf Hitler

#23. I'm a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it's very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can't go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?

Justin Bieber

#24. Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

Stanley Greenspan

#25. Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

Barton Gellman

#26. I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Mary Oliver