Top 100 Quotes About Starting
#1. When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.
Eric Swalwell
#2. I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
David Morrissey
#3. As a pure source of reference, 'Modernist Cuisine' is incredibly helpful. It's like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It's not always the answer, but it's always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.
Wylie Dufresne
#4. Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were a lot easier to take when you were sleeping.
Lara Adrian
#5. This is really a dream come true. To be the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl is probably the highlight of my life.
Tom Brady
#6. It felt like a textbook breakdown to me, but Diana called it a spiritual awakening. I think we were both right. In fact, I'm starting to question if you can have one without the other.
Brene Brown
#7. We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?
Michael Leunig
#8. Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'
Christian Bale
#9. Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.
Andrew Shue
#10. He leans back against the starting gate like he's in a hammock in the Caribbean ...
Secretariat
#11. I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
Shania Twain
#12. I knew these halls so well - and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too.
John Green
#13. The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'
Leith Anderson
#14. Mrs. Margaret sigh heavy. Then she standing up, and starting make her own tea. She drink it in very thirsty way, like angry camel in the desert.
Xiaolu Guo
#15. Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
Alan Lightman
#16. I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.
El-P
#17. A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen
Tijan
#18. I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.
Lee Tergesen
#19. If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.
Richie Norton
#20. We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
Mick Jagger
#21. I'm on the clock here. Besides, I thought you'd like this. There's a True Blood panel starting soon.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - BUDDHA
Jacqueline Novogratz
#23. The sun is starting to dip to the west, a bright blaring ball tilting toward the Hudson and leaving a collage of peach and purple streaks across the sky.
Gayle Forman
#24. It seems that a lot of people my age try to be interesting by having problems or starting conflicts. I'd rather be interesting because I created something beautiful.
Brandon Stanton
#25. A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
John Currin
#26. I don't worry much but I'm starting to worry a little.
Malik Rose
#27. I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Channing Tatum
#28. Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi
#29. When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.
Alexandra Daddario
#30. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
#31. They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
#32. I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It was the magic of forgetting.
Francesca Lia Block
#33. I'm starting to think you like prisons," he says, idling knocking his knuckles against the wall. "And that you have the worst taste in men.
Victoria Aveyard
#34. When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
Sandra Cisneros
#35. The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
Alan Alda
#36. To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
Bjorn Lomborg
#37. Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?
Harrison Ford
#38. It was a nice feeling. Like starting out on a long walk, and knowing you're headed in the right direction.
Barry Martin
#39. In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
Sebastian Thrun
#40. It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#41. There are billions of dollars spent every year on traditional media. The majority of people are spending more time every day on the Internet, especially on mobile. You're starting to see a shift of that spend go to mobile, especially to things like 'Instagram'.
Kevin Systrom
#42. The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen.
Doug Stanhope
#43. I don't usually like to stop women staring at my groin, but ... you're a bit intense, I'm starting to worry.
Jane Lovering
#44. Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#45. I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.
Juliet Marillier
#46. I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. At 2 P.M., two long, cold hours after starting, Everett concluded his speech to thunderous applause - motivated, one is bound to suspect, more by the joy of realizing it was over than by any message derived from the content - and
Bill Bryson
#48. I think I see my life already starting to write on my next decision the adventures of a loneliness which for the first time in years can stand being alone again.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#49. Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive.
Viktor E. Frankl
#50. Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.
Mick Jagger
#51. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.
Adam Leith Gollner
#52. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
Epictetus
#53. The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Jacques Ellul
#54. When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch was not that interesting on the page. What really sold me on the show and the character was their vision for him. It took the whole first season to flesh him out.
Bailey Chase
#55. I'm either starting to like these people, or I'm going to shoot them,
Evan Currie
#56. For a minute, I could pretend that I meant everything to her, because she was certainly starting to mean everything to me. And if you pretend something long enough, it eventually becomes
real. Right?
S.C. Stephens
#57. Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
Ann Coulter
#58. In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller
#59. The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.
Robin Sloan
#60. He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little.
Colleen Chen
#61. He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?
Lynne Rae Perkins
#62. No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#63. Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?"
"They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.
Ally Carter
#64. Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'
Linwood Barclay
#65. The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
Abraham Kuyper
#66. Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#67. A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.
Grover Norquist
#68. A woman will tell you
every home she has ever inhabited
has been broken into
starting with her body
Suheir Hammad
#69. Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory
#70. Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
Nancy Meyers
#71. I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.
Brian Schmidt
#72. If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.
Brian Tracy
#73. After suffering a torn disc six months ago, then a car crash just when it was starting to heal, and then an attack of Bell's Palsy for variety, I realised something. When my life decides to go down the crapper, it doesn't forget to flush!
Greg Curtis
#74. The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.
John Sculley
#75. I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.
Tobe Hooper
#76. I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
Missy Elliot
#77. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#78. Did you indeed?" said Ripred. "It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa's knee. And now you're starting wars. They grow up so fast.
Suzanne Collins
#79. She was drowning - in friendliness, in community - and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.
Tricia Goyer
#80. Keeping his voice light, he said, "As my soon-to-be crown princess, you're supposed to set an example, not a new trend."
"Pity. I seem to be particularly good at starting new trends.
Gwynn White
#81. There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart ... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.
Christian Finnegan
#82. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#83. There are so many issues that this country [the U.S.] has, and that the world faces, that it's important that we sit down and recognize our commonality. When we do that, we can actually work together to overcome some of the problems that we have. That, to me, is just a good starting place.
Paul Blackthorne
#84. It doesn't seem to matter how far away I go or how many years go by. I'm starting to accept that there will always be some part of me that is going to hold on to some part of you.
Nicole Williams
#86. So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
Matthew Lesko
#87. There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.
Niger Innis
#88. When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
Francesca Annis
#89. The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.
P.T. Barnum
#90. I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.
Mark Occhilupo
#91. You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Russell Crowe
#92. whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as
J.K. Rowling
#93. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
Anne Perry
#94. Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.
Pope Francis
#95. You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, I'm starting to understand this.
Reese Witherspoon
#96. Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.
Kate Brian
#97. Our employee engagement surveys showed a 30 percent improvement in lost sick days in one year. People are calling in sick less because they are feeling more empowered, more of a sense of ownership, and more connected." Jump-Starting
Thomas L. Friedman
#98. I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#99. A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the scene. I mean, I'm more familiar with people coming from other countries like Latin-American MCs and African rappers ... that type of stuff I'm really starting to get a hold on.
Immortal Technique
#100. Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
Felix Mendelssohn
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