Top 100 Quotes About Starting Something
#1. I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
Lori Greiner
#2. The only thing worse than starting something and failing ... is not starting something.
Seth Godin
#3. There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.
Ellie Kendrick
#4. That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#5. Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
Anita Borg
#6. In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.
Skitch Henderson
#8. Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
Nora Roberts
#9. Part of success is just starting something, working toward a goal, and then living long enough to achieve it.
Mike Sacks
#10. He looked in her eyes, and she wondered if she made a good decision starting something like that with a guy like Nero. She knew he was like a wolf. The man was definitely an animal, and he looked at her only as food. Yet that excited a small part of Elle, and that was what scared her the most
Sarah Brianne
#11. I realized that this was the big secret of democracy
that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
Michael Moore
#12. What a degraded cosmos. What a case of something starting out nice and going bad.
George Saunders
#13. When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
Peter Jackson
#14. I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago ... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
John Cusack
#15. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
Fred Kavli
#16. It seems [that] everybody wants to be a twenty-something except for many twenty-somethings themselves. All around, 'thirty is the new twenty' is starting to get a new reaction: 'God, I hope not.
Meg Jay
#17. 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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#18. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#19. I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.
Billy Collins
#20. You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left wing has, like, carrot-hair. he must be Irish. It's the whole UN over there.
Sarah Ockler
#21. I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
Jamie Oliver
#22. Because if I'm going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.
Julie Buxbaum
#23. Something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
Laini Taylor
#24. 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.
#25. 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
#26. So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca
#27. Seth glanced back over his shoulder at the door. Alex, you're starting to worry me. Insult me ... or something.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#28. She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.
Boris Pasternak
#29. When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
James Franco
#30. Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.
Marc Benioff
#31. I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
Deborah Harkness
#32. I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.
Steven Soderbergh
#33. The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.
Gilles Marini
#34. It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her.
Lauren Gilley
#35. When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
Jason Mraz
#36. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.
Megan Thomason
#37. Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul
#39. We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.
David Levithan
#40. I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.
John Starks
#41. Telling a story about something you know nothing about is like starting a new job without the training.
Joshua Hartzell
#42. I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.
Justin Verlander
#43. It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind
Gore Vidal
#44. There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.
China Mieville
#45. Chloe handed a pink envelope to Madeline. "Can you keep this, Mummy? It's an invitation to Amabella's party. You have to come dressed as something starting with A. I'm going to dress up as a princess." She ran off.
Liane Moriarty
#46. I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.
Molly Antopol
#47. Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't ... I don't think it's something anybody knows.
L.J.Smith
#48. Now look", my mother said. "When I feel myself starting to worry, I just tell myself, I will not worry about something that will never happen, and that always calms me, because most of the things we worry about will never happen. Why don't you give that a try?
J.R. Moehringer
#49. Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall
#50. Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something - only not the good kind.
Gayle Forman
#51. When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
John Hawkes
#52. Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#53. Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.
Joseph Altuzarra
#54. If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
Blake Mycoskie
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
Gianni Agnelli
#58. Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it's video or doing something on social media. It's just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.
Anthony Padilla
#59. I believe if we love something and have fun, we tend to self teach and learn at a rapid rate. I also consider confusion a starting state for learning. It opens us to new patterns emerging.
Todd Rice
#60. We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.
Carla Overbeck
#61. Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#62. Difference making, by its very nature, is the art of taking something good and making it better. It's an act of fine-tuning, improving, and refining, not starting from zero.
David Sturt
#63. If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.
Demetri Martin
#64. We've got something," I said, starting down the stairs again. "We've got a killer at large in this goddamned building. As for Madison Tyler, we've got another dead end.
James Patterson
#65. If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.
Jennifer Pahlka
#66. Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.
Daniel Handler
#67. At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#68. I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me ... This is my new starting line.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#69. Their only plans were to stay there and wait for Sunday afternoon to wear itself out all by itself and it would once again be time to do something necessary, like eating, sleeping, or starting yet another week.
Paolo Giordano
#70. All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.
Joe Abercrombie
#71. There are probably a million and one regrets I have, and if they are going to be between us here or in bed, then let's just stop it now, because I'm not going to do combat over my past when my future is finally starting to be something I want to invest in.
Jay Crownover
#72. I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.
Emma Cline
#73. Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
Jay-Z
#74. Not a very regal send-off for a prince." I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
"That was me and Goma when I was little," said Jack, starting the car. "I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.
Leylah Attar
#75. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
Lee Iacocca
#76. Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Mitch Daniels
#77. Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
Bill Parcells
#78. As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.
Jason Day
#79. Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
Ted Lindsay
#80. Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.
Laozi
#81. If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
Marshall Faulk
#82. I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
Jonathan Lethem
#83. I was starting to think you were one kind of person until a situation arose that required you to be something else.
Laura McHugh
#84. Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.
Alva Noto
#85. Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
Peter Thiel
#86. You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram
#87. I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life - just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that's what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to.
Katie Kacvinsky
#88. When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#89. When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce Dern
#90. I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.
Roger Rosenblatt
#91. I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
Oprah Winfrey
#92. 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
Mark Hoppus
#93. There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.
Kirko Bangz
#94. It's hard to put it in perspective right now. I'm starting to feel a little emotional about what's going to happen Friday night. Getting your number put in the rafters is always something that as a kid ... you dream of seeing happen to you.
Scottie Pippen
#95. You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky's still clear, but the wind's starting to cool off and change direction. You know something's coming, but you don't always know what. That's how things feel to me right now. -Zoey Redbird
P.C. Cast
#96. I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.
Allison Jones
#97. When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. companies are focused on building products rather than brands. A product is something made in a factory. A brand is something made in the mind. To be successful today, you have to build brands, not products. And you build brands by using positioning strategies, starting with a good name. Any
Al Ries
#99. At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.
Bo Burnham
#100. I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
Carol Leifer
