Top 100 Start Out Quotes
#1. I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
Ashwin Sanghi
#2. Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin
#3. The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms ... Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
Seamus Heaney
#4. Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#5. You're still riding home with me right? He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?
Lauren Barnholdt
#6. We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.
Brenda Ueland
#7. I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Italo Calvino
#8. It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
Nigel Farage
#9. I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.
George Carlin
#11. Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
Marilu Henner
#12. Start out the day assuming you know nothing. That's a good start to the day.
Art Hochberg
#13. Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
Lenny Abrahamson
#14. So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.
KRS-One
#15. Let your soul turn into a mirror that passionately wants to reflect Joseph.
Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak. As that begins, we will start out.
Rumi
#16. From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
Jamie Redknapp
#17. We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It's a set-up of awesome potential.
Daniel Lugo
#19. A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.
JJ Ramberg
#20. I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.
Susanna Clarke
#21. I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#22. Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.
David Nicholls
#23. All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
Steven Spielberg
#24. When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
Dave Brubeck
#25. We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
Harvey MacKay
#26. All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
Richard Diebenkorn
#27. Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.
Ivan Reitman
#28. You've got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.
Annie Proulx
#29. This opportunity - to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life - it isn't bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business.
Marco Rubio
#30. I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
Jody Watley
#31. People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have to try to make an impact.
Stephen Amell
#32. Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
Iain Banks
#33. I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.
Maud Adams
#34. The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, My name is Humphrey, somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.
Jamie Farr
#35. You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.
Jack LaLanne
#36. When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.
Roald Dahl
#37. Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
Steve Earle
#38. If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
Paulo Coelho
#39. I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.
George Takei
#40. You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
#41. Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas
#42. In our eagerness to solve life we start out to trace its mysteries and trample God's truths as we search. As we return we discover the shattered treasures, and gladly stoop to gather up the fragments, and with them translate the revelations of the soul.
Margaret Bird Steinmetz
#43. Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
Gavin Newsom
#44. We start out as pretty creative beings ... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.
Harvey MacKay
#45. In any medium, I also start out assuming - even planning - that I'll delete the first thing I do, whether it's a paragraph or the first few rows of a scarf. That makes those first steps far less precious and therefore less intimidating.
Kim Piper Werker
#46. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#47. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Getting sweaty with a woman after some good sex was one thing, but he'd rather not start out that way.
Cat Johnson
#50. You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.
David Baldacci
#51. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.
Hulk Hogan
#52. Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.
Jill Shalvis
#53. You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
David Nicholls
#54. Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#55. But it's not really Chinese, is it?'
Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.
Ken Liu
#56. Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.
Niklas Zennstrom
#57. The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
Swami Satchidananda
#58. I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Billy Collins
#59. The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
Michael Leunig
#60. You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start out at center, I may play small forward, if I get a rebound and you're not there I can bring the ball up.
Lisa Leslie
#61. Peter always had a 'best before' date stamped on his forehead," said Ruth. "People who live in their heads do. They start out well enough, but eventually they run out of ideas. And if there's no imagination, no inspiration to fall back on? Then what?
Louise Penny
#62. Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
Julia Child
#63. Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
Peter Drucker
#64. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox
#65. We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Thom Yorke
#66. When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.
Don Rickles
#67. He would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.
Orson Scott Card
#68. From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.
Judy Woodruff
#70. If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.
Michael Bloomberg
#71. If my life were a movie ... the title sequence would start out like a typical high school story, but then reveal that something's amiss. There'd be a tight shot, or piece of dialogue, or something that would make the viewer uncomfortable. Something to give them that prickly feeling.
-Dez
Dawn Klehr
#72. I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.
Vincent Bugliosi
#73. I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
Barret Oliver
#74. most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.
Michael Jesse Chonoles
#75. It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.
Angelina Jolie
#76. When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.
George Clooney
#77. I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.
Sarah Hall
#78. You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.
Rick Bass
#79. To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
William Carlos Williams
#81. When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.
Mitch Hedberg
#82. No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role.
James S.A. Corey
#83. I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
Benicio Del Toro
#84. I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
Andrew Vachss
#85. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.
Jane Russell
#86. Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Robert Gottlieb
#87. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.
Terry Pratchett
#88. I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards - except Groot. He's an innocent. He's a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He's caught up in Rocket's life, really.
James Gunn
#89. We'll now hear a few words from Augustus's special friend, Hazel." Special friend? There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, "I was his girlfriend." That got a laugh.
John Green
#90. You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
Cindy Crawford
#91. -This is a disaster- she said. -Most great things start out that way- he said.
Lauren Kate
#92. I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#93. It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.
J.D. Salinger
#94. The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.
John C. Maxwell
#95. I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.
Niecy Nash
#96. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.
Thomm Quackenbush
#97. I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.
Christy Clark
#98. When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
Phoebe Cates
#99. A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.
Solange Nicole
#100. I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
Greg Abbott
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