Top 100 Once You Start Quotes
#1. When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.
Christie Brinkley
#2. I have a question for you, but it's kind of ... um, personal."
"Yes, I'm gay."
"You really are a fan of saying that, aren't you?"
"Once you start, you just can't stop.
Diana Peterfreund
#3. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.
Richard K. Morgan
#4. THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end?
Amy Harmon
#5. The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
Greg Carlson
#6. I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
Halle Berry
#7. I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.
Alexandra Roach
#9. The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Sheryl Crow
#10. Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
Yash Chopra
#11. Once you start dating men with purpose instead of swag you'll become a wife on purpose
Kazeem Akintilo
#13. Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
Trevor Phillips
#14. Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.
Paul Azinger
#15. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
#16. I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#17. I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
James Mercer
#18. I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
Dean Winters
#19. The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.
Daphne Du Maurier
#20. I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
Lance Bass
#21. Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
Carine Roitfeld
#22. Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift, if not liftoff.
Elizabeth Berg
#23. Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
Barry N. Malzberg
#24. Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.
DJ Khaled
#25. Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
Emmylou Harris
#27. Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can't stop seeing it that way. It's everywhere, everyone. It doesn't make any sense. That's not life. It can't be. I don't know what it is, but it's not life.
Jed McKenna
#28. Experience shows that, once you start using the business storytelling process, you are unlikely to return to your old methods.
Luis Cubero
#29. Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.
Wanda Sykes
#30. Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
#31. You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.
Tim Noakes
#32. I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
Asif Kapadia
#33. Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?
Sachin Kundalkar
#34. He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself.
Patricia Highsmith
#35. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.
James Nicoll
#36. Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
Daniel Barenboim
#37. Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.
Nirmala Srivastava
#38. Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old.
Jeanette Winterson
#39. I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.
Jemaine Clement
#40. Make sure this is the path you want to walk because once you start, you have to be committed to the process. The progression will be exhausting, discouraging and daunting. It will get you down, but the end point, which may be years down the line, will make it worthwhile. - Will Granger
Jess Dee
#41. I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
Tanith Lee
#42. It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.
Peter Jackson
#43. You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it.
Rajneesh
#44. Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.
Carolyn See
#45. Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.
Mike Birbiglia
#46. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
#47. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.
Jack Dorsey
#48. Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.
John Berendt
#49. It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.
Clark Gregg
#50. Yoga is something that once you start practicing it you learn a lot of breathing skills and I think that would really be incredibly useful on a day-to-day basis. It can help you with all the emotional stress.
Jayne Middlemiss
#52. Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.
Dave Pirner
#53. once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion.
Sam A. Patel
#54. Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
Elaine Pagels
#55. Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible.
Madonna Ciccone
#56. Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'
Khloe Kardashian
#57. Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.
Tyler Hamilton
#58. Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy.
Roland Orzabal
#59. Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.
Keary Taylor
#60. The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
Kevin Sorbo
#61. Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
Jodi Picoult
#62. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.
William J. Clinton
#63. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will ...
George Lucas
#64. Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's going to be an inherent part of your choice as you purchase products throughout your life.
Ellen Gustafson
#65. Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
Robin Ince
#66. Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.
Geoffrey Fisher
#67. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
Ziggy Marley
#68. I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher
#69. What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.
Shakira
#70. Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
Ed Bliss
#71. Trust me... It's not called Wicked Pleasure for nothing. You won't be able to put it down once you start!!!
Scarlett Avery
#72. Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.
Charlie Munger
#73. When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'
Khloe Kardashian
#74. Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
Robin Trower
#75. Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.
Karen Marie Moning
#76. Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
Richard Engel
#77. But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).
Kola Boof
#78. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.
A.J. Darkholme
#79. A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you've picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it's okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others ... snap out of it.
Arthur M. Jolly
#80. There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.
John Madden
#81. But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.
Philip Roth
#82. It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die.
Carol Shields
#83. It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have a way of creeping in.
Susan Elderkin
#84. Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.
Mohamed El-Erian
#85. There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.
Subodh Gupta
#86. Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
Emmitt Smith
#87. You don't go around questioning the Bible, not if you want to go to Heaven one of these days. Besides, once you start picking holes in things, it's hard to figure out which parts to throw away and which parts to keep.
Jenny Wingfield
#88. The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#89. Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
Vladimir Kramnik
#90. Sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.
David Levithan
#91. The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
Philip Roth
#92. I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles' ... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.
Suzanne Collins
#93. I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it's hard to stop - and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.
Neal Shusterman
#94. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.
Marty Rubin
#95. Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.
James Gurney
#96. Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
Jack Whitehall
#97. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
John Green
#98. Once you start your exercise routine and you include in your daily diet foods rich in calcium and potassium, you will start losing weight in about a week
Jeannette Murueta
#99. Once you start overthinking it, it's like it ain't a feeling no more.
Dreezy
#100. Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
George Mikes
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