Quotes About Starting Point

#1. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

Brian Houston

#2. Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.

Tony Hsieh

#3. When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.

Alfred Amoroso

#4. The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Bobby Fischer

#6. If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin

#7. We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#8. The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Ron Kaufman

#9. Our starting point is not the individual:
We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked ... Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

Joseph Goebbels

#10. I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

Bikram Choudhury

#12. A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

Heidi Julavits

#13. Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

Damon Galgut

#14. If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Portman

#15. Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Bruce Lee

#16. Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

Rudolf Hiferding

#17. Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Yoshihiko Noda

#18. starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.

Elena Ferrante

#19. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#20. We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.

Pearl Zhu

#21. The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

Laurence Boldt

#22. The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

Genevieve Behrend

#23. The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Clive Bell

#24. The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

#25. A lot depends on the starting point.

Howard Raiffa

#26. Your health is your starting point - without it, you have nothing.

Sienna Guillory

#27. Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

Aristotle.

#28. Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Francis Schaeffer

#29. I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Gayle Forman

#30. I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.

Donald Miller

#31. Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#32. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Antonio Gramsci

#33. That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

Shane McAnally

#34. Baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

Aristotle.

#35. I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point
race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Molly Ivins

#36. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

#37. The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

William Ames

#38. The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Bryant McGill

#39. I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

Jurgen Habermas

#40. I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures ... I've lived with Masai tribe ... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

John Galliano

#41. My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Dan Hawkins

#42. I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

Steven Erikson

#43. Humility is by definition a starting point - and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point - no journeys needed.

Tim Urban

#44. Natural theology, in other words, is in no way a step on the way toward the theology which takes God's self-revelation as its starting point. It is more likely, in fact, to lead in the opposite direction.

Lesslie Newbigin

#45. So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

John Ringo

#46. The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Xu Zhimo

#47. The starting point for all interaction must come from an understanding of what the other person cares about most.

Brett Bartholomew

#48. Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

John Hull

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

Norman Cousins

#50. The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. Pleasure promotes the resignation which it ought to help to forget.

Theodor W. Adorno

#51. Well-being is not the goal; it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then.

Frederick Dodson

#52. Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Guy Kawasaki

#53. Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

Karl Lehmann

#54. Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

N. T. Wright

#55. He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose ...

George Eliot

#56. I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.

Elizabeth Rogers

#57. He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He

Henning Mankell

#58. I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.

Marnie Stern

#59. Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

Lyle Lovett

#60. I've learned that by returning my calls between 11:00 a.m. and noon and 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. I can keep them short and to the point because people are either hungry and starting to think about lunch or they are trying to gear down at the end of the day.

Geri Larkin

#61. If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

Henry Adams

#62. Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Sara Sheridan

#63. For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

Tammy Bruce

#64. Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

PJ Harvey

#65. Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

Andrew Strauss

#66. Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#67. Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.

Roopal Patel

#68. There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

Ellie Kendrick

#69. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Brian Tracy

#70. My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

Dalai Lama

#71. Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

Patrick DeWitt

#72. The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who ... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Winston Churchill

#73. How's our blue rose?" the doctor asked.
...
"If you really want to know, I feel sorry for the poor thing," Elinor went on. "All wrapped up that way. I'm starting to think there's no point in being a rose if you're tied up and covered with burlap.

Alice Hoffman

#74. Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

Cornelius Lanczos

#75. THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#76. Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

Kenichi Ohmae

#77. My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#78. Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

Michael Behe

#79. When just starting out on a new journey it's only natural to feel vulnerable. After all it may seem that you have much to lose. But may I remind you that never again at any other point in the same journey will you have so much to gain.

Mike Dooley

#80. Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

Walter Schloss

#81. It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

Ernst Cassirer

#82. The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

Horatius Bonar

#83. All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Aldo Leopold

#84. Vision is the starting point of all high performance. You create things twice; first mentally, then physically.

Brian P. Moran

#85. The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form ... I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Georges Braque

#86. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Jonathan Tropper

#87. In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

C. V. Raman

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

David Spangler

#89. The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Chuck Palahniuk

#90. Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches

Napoleon Hill

#91. Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

Planningtorock

#92. Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

Stephen Jay Gould

#93. Forgiveness was a trait that Jesus preached about. It was not a destination to achieve but a starting point in the journey required for healing.

Sarah Price

#94. I can't leave him. I made a promise." I start to explain it, but I don't even know how to begin. How do I put it into words? It isn't possible. It's like locating the starting point of a circle. Or finding the first link in a silver chain. "I ran one time," I finally say. "I'm not running again.

Rick Yancey

#95. The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

Paul Singer

#96. I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Chelsea Clinton

#97. Everything is a starting point for something else and we work at it until we find the things that are meaningful to us. If we believe in ourselves, others will too.

Judith D. Andrade

#98. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#99. The starting point of high performance is for you to identify the key result areas of your work. Discuss them with your boss. Make a list of your most important output responsibilities, and make sure that the people above you, on the same level as you, and below you are in agreement with it. For

Brian Tracy

#100. And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

Dennis Miller