Start Something Quotes

#1. I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.

Serena Williams

#2. Sometimes it's hard for me to start something because I'd rather not try at all than fail at it

Kasie West

#3. I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Dan Hawkins

#4. start something, with a knowledge to end it.

Krishna Sagar

#5. We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.

Meghan Trainor

#6. I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

Colonel Sanders

#7. We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Brenda Ueland

#8. As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

Jane Fonda

#9. When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.

C.M. Stunich

#10. Why start something that you won't see to the end? You need to finish what you start!

Nabil N. Jamal

#11. And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Meister Eckhart

#12. Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission
the one only you can fulfill.

Daisaku Ikeda

#13. We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05 ... start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.

Seth Godin

#14. So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

RuPaul

#15. Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"].

Catie Marron

#16. Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

Sean Penn

#17. When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Matthew Williamson

#18. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Karen Salmansohn

#19. The diary was evidence; it was - it might be - corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump-start something - though I had no idea what.

Julian Barnes

#20. I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

Jay Chiat

#21. Life is too short not to start something stupid.

Richie Norton

#22. News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

Pierre Omidyar

#23. The desire to start something at the "right" time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.

Gretchen Rubin

#24. When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

Tony Gilroy

#25. Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

Carl Sandburg

#26. A brand is a story. And you have to tell it well. The good news in this connected world great stories travel fast. And, these days, they travel for free. So there has never been a better time or a cheaper time to start something.

David Hieatt

#27. I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#28. Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Ryan Sheckler

#29. The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!

T. Harv Eker

#30. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

Whitney Johnson

#31. Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there ... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

Christopher Alexander

#32. I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

Estelle

#33. It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

Dustin Moskovitz

#34. Everyday is an opportunity for reinvention. Everyday you can start something new.

Guillaume Wolf

#35. Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Bryan Singer

#36. I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.

Mary Wesley

#37. If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

Muhammad Ali

#38. Maybe here in the ruins of the old world, they could start something new.

Kass Morgan

#39. This doesn't have fuck-all to do with independence. You're scared because you know if you start something with me, it'll go to a place you and Dane never went. He won't stand by you
he's already proved it. He went pussy on you. And now he gets laid for that?
Jack Travis

Lisa Kleypas

#40. My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.

Rob Sheffield

#41. 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

#42. In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Amelia Earhart

#43. She read the last chapter of her book because she didn't want to start something that would end badly.

Richard House

#44. Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

Ed Bliss

#45. I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

Bruce Dickinson

#46. Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.

Grace Paley

#47. No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Brendon Burchard

#48. I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.

Isla Fisher

#49. You've been giving me the full-court press since you got here, and we know what'll happen if I let you through that door. But you're leaving. And when you do, I'll be the one who's hurt afterward. So why start something you have no intention of finishing?
- Lexie

Nicholas Sparks

#50. Once you start something, finish it. Never give up...

Kenny Wayne Fields

#51. I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.

Joe Arpaio

#52. I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

Jodi Picoult

#53. I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

Julianna Baggott

#54. 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

#55. It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

Epictetus

#56. You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.

Jennifer Echols

#57. Do I get bored from books or films?
No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new...

Deyth Banger

#58. It's been three days
still haven't heard from you.
My heart lives underwater
breathing for you.
But you break apart
my tiny heart,
giving me no chance
to start something with you.
I dove into the pool
I dove in
hoping to swim
now I'm drowning.

Cecil Castellucci

#59. So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

Katherine Dunham

#60. Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

Gary Player

#61. No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Mark Morris

#62. Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something.

Auliq Ice

#63. When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Raghav Bahl

#64. I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

Steven Spielberg

#65. The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

Robert Benchley

#66. I think that we were both wrong. I think that Arthur had sex with his sister to create a short century."
"Daddy, what are you talking about?"
"He was trying to end something, and by ending it start something totally new.

David Burr Gerrard

#67. You always leave something behind when you start something new.

Paul Acampora

#68. When you start something you cannot give yourself a time-frame for success. You can't say: if it doesn't work out in six-months I will give up. Your only task is to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve the goal.

G.R. Gopinath

#69. You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

Lenny Kravitz

#70. Don't start something that you cannot finish.

Justin Somper

#71. We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

Hannah Arendt

#72. If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Louis L'Amour

#73. You will work harder at something you love than at something you like. You will work harder than you have ever worked when you start chasing a dream. You will hustle and grind and sweat and push and pull. You will get up earlier and go to bed later. But that's okay.

Jon Acuff

#74. Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.

George Saunders

#75. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Mae Jemison

#76. What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Theo De Raadt

#77. Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.

Joshua Homme

#78. Lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.

J.D. Salinger

#79. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg

#80. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

#81. It's so curious, isn't it? How if you're denied something again and again, eventually you start telling yourself you didn't want it in the first place.

Tessa Dare

#82. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

Diane Duane

#83. Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.

Behati Prinsloo

#84. Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

Hugh Howey

#85. 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

#86. You start out every day with something new and different, and sometimes it looks pretty good and sometimes it doesn't, but you have to go through it anyway.

Cheryl Dellasega

#87. If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

Charlie Daniels

#88. When you are new at something, you need to start creating.

Jason Fried

#89. When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.

Lewis N. Roe

#90. Read everyday quotes start from easy which don't want a lot of thinking, then average,then something complex. This will re-wire your brain, however if you find a book of quotes I suggest you to read all quotes slow and even if you don't get a quote or quotes read them as much time as possible.

Deyth Banger

#91. You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Conrad Sewell

#92. It wasn't a goodbye kiss, it was the opposite. It was the start of something that would last forever.

Karina Halle

#93. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#94. Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Martin Sheen

#95. 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

#96. I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.

Noah Hawley

#97. I must break out ...
... start a new life ...
been here for years ...
might be getting into a rut ...
something a bit more exciting ...
more adventurous ...
something with more of a challenge ...
There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets ...

Raymond Briggs

#98. You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

Jim Sturgess

#99. The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Jim Carrey

#100. I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

Jack Dee