Top 100 Start With Quotes
#1. A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.
Evan Esar
#2. I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
Neil Jordan
#3. If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
James Collins
#4. If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
Henry Hampton
#5. I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#6. We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.
Cathy O'Brien
#7. Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.
Susan Neiman
#8. If you start with respect for others you can never go wrong. Ultimately when you understand there is no difference between you and others, this rule will take on added significance.
G. Tyler Wright
#9. Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.
N.K. Jemisin
#10. The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
Giles Foden
#11. Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.
Coco Chanel
#12. Smaller increment. Often, the best way to make the increments smaller is to start with seemingly trivial cases. "I need my class to put one name/value pair into a HashMap," I thought, which sounded like it would do the trick. Step 2: Red Bar. The next step is to write the test
Anonymous
#13. You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Ani DiFranco
#14. Laugh, laugh mother fucker now it's your turn because your black then it's my turn I'm white and I will starttt with your finggerss... I like them nice... so I will start with the winky finga.
Deyth Banger
#15. In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
Joaquin Phoenix
#16. Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.
Shereen El Feki
#17. Okay," she said. "I'm going to start with four basic principles of civilization. 1) Ethics is based on consent. 2) Victims shall not mete out justice themselves. 3) Government serves the will of the people. 4) Giant unwashed beards are gross.
Zach Weinersmith
#18. We can't give up on people anymore. Even if most react like you say, some won't. So we start with the hearts we can change. That's how we make a difference--we begin with a ripple to end with a wave.
Romina Russell
#19. I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?"
"Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.
Jana Deleon
#20. Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.
Brian Joyce
#21. The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
Joseph Altuzarra
#22. The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
Bashar Al-Assad
#23. At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.
Filo Tiatia
#24. Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
Sara Raasch
#25. Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.
John C. Maxwell
#26. It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.
Avi Arad
#27. Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.
Morgan Spurlock
#28. We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Ben Elton
#30. If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way.
Christina Grimmie
#32. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
#33. Do you think you're a train wreck?"
"That would mean I was on the tracks to start with.
Maggie Stiefvater
#34. The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.
Cherie Blair
#35. With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
Norman Jewison
#36. The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
Louise Erdrich
#37. Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
Edward P. Jones
#38. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.
Andre Agassi
#39. Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ's pursuit of us. Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
David Platt
#40. It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. Start with yourself. Only if you change can the world change. We are just taking it a little bit further. Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.
Amit Goswami
#42. Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.
Melody Manful
#43. When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
Menander
#44. It's common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream.
Lynn Jurich
#45. I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.
Norman Mailer
#46. I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.
Douglas Conant
#47. If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.
C.S. Lewis
#48. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#49. I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
Simon Beaufoy
#50. I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts ...
Ian Christe
#51. Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
Tracie Peterson
#52. Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
Morgan Freeman
#53. Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
#54. A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
#55. Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.
Beth Comstock
#56. Know where you wanna go. Then get there. Start with small goals and they'll build your foundation for the bigger ones.
Author Cole Hart
#57. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
Jon McGregor
#59. Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
John Donne
#60. Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.
Vishen Lakhiani
#61. The dish that changed my life was tom yum kum. You start with a pot of water, add lemongrass, lime leaves, lime juice, coriander, mushrooms, and shrimp; ten minutes later, you have the most incredible, intense soup.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#62. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.
Michael Dunlop
#63. To create an Ocean you have to start with the droplets
Alok Jagawat
#64. Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought. -Bob Proctor
Bob Proctor
#65. When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso
#66. The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
#67. We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up.
Nick Vujicic
#68. One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes
Amie Kaufman
#70. I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
River Phoenix
#71. I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.
Thomas Tull
#72. Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
Honore De Balzac
#73. You can't get where you want to go unless you start with where you are.
Michael Hyatt
#74. I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
Al Yankovic
#75. Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.
John Medina
#76. Let's start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
T. Colin Campbell
#78. In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.
Richard Powers
#79. Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.
Alexander Lowen
#80. Start with your heart, and only good can follow!
Ocean
#82. Peace can start with just one heart.
Holly Near
#83. Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
George R R Martin
#84. She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.
Shannon Hale
#85. I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.
Erin Heatherton
#86. I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.
Sophia Bush
#87. Each new breath and moment is a gift. We can choose to start with a clean slate in the here and now.
K.J. Kilton
#88. My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
Sarah Addison Allen
#89. Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
Alice Walker
#90. Sexual predators often start with nonsexual touch to desensitize their targets. It might be "accidental" touch, or hugs, pats, strokes, hair-brushing, holding. A
Gavin De Becker
#91. That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
Dan Chaon
#92. Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.
Rands
#93. Then the pints will get further apart, and then one of us will get into a relationship and won't be around as much; the texts will start with Hey, too long no see, and all of a sudden we'll realize it's been a year since we met up. And
Tana French
#94. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Bum Phillips
#95. When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
Jennifer Aniston
#96. To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation ... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.
Saul Alinsky
#97. Making a lifestyle change is challenging, especially when you want to transform many things at once, you better start with one, when you see the change you'll have an automatic motivation entering into your life.
Auliq Ice
#98. I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.
Grace Lee Boggs
#99. It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.
Gustavo Kuerten
#100. We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what God's Word says - not the other way around.
Ken Ham
