When You Start Quotes

#1. When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.

Bob Buckhorn

#2. The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

Fred Frith

#3. If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

Quentin Tarantino

#4. If you feel like life has passed you by then you weren't really living it.

Life begins when you start living it.

Tara Devaney-Thompson

#5. I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

Olga Korbut

#6. When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

George McGovern

#7. When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Julian Casablancas

#8. When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

Henry Rollins

#9. 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

#10. Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch

#11. 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

#12. When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.

Bunny Yeager

#13. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#14. It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

Gus Van Sant

#15. There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

Sinead O'Connor

#16. When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.

Ed Coan

#17. When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Bonnie Wright

#18. I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Selena Gomez

#19. Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

#20. Just when you start to lose yourself in the story," she said, "he throws in something really juvenile.

Benjamin Anastas

#21. The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

Khloe Kardashian

#22. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.

Greg Gutfeld

#23. When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Fernando Botero

#24. When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Robert D Bullard

#25. When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

Michael Bassey

#26. When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins

#27. As J.J. has said many times, when you start a series you want to have a destination. It's like driving a car, when you pull out of your garage and you head out driving down the road, you have a destination, okay?

Bryan Burk

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#31. All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.

Dan Gable

#32. I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

Gabrielle Union

#33. When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Lupe Fiasco

#34. I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

Debbie Gibson

#35. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Matthew Kelly

#36. When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

Andy Stanley

#37. A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.

Miranda Kenneally

#38. When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Wayne Rooney

#39. When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

Jeff Bridges

#40. Eric believes in the three-week rule: When you start a new position, for the first three weeks don't do anything. Listen to people, understand their issues and priorities, get to know and care about them, and earn their trust.

Anonymous

#41. Don't compare yourself to others. That's when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

Will Smith

#42. I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.

Natasha Trethewey

#43. When you start looking for purity in politics, you eventually get to unreality.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#44. Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.

Lily King

#45. When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

Rajneesh

#46. When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.

David Livermore

#47. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

#48. War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

Adrien Brody

#49. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks." - Jack Reacher

Lee Child

#50. It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

Tim Burton

#51. It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Avi Arad

#52. When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.

Marie Forleo

#53. When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

David Allen

#54. When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

Derren Brown

#55. There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

Angeles Arrien

#56. You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better ... Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Geneen Roth

#57. Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Geronimo

#58. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.

Charles M. Schwab

#59. When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

Don Piper

#60. When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#61. When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.

Andrew Wight

#62. Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

Jodi Picoult

#63. I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

Alexander Gustafsson

#64. When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away ... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.

Lee Carroll

#65. Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.

Christopher Fowler

#66. At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

Keith Rabois

#67. When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

#68. It is amazing how great life can be when you start Living your dreams rather than just Dreaming about them.

Kevin W. Courington

#69. When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

Sada Thompson

#70. And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

Jane Badler

#71. When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee

#72. When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Pablo Picasso

#73. It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

Gaspar Noe

#74. The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

Adam Leipzig

#75. No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

Ron Clarke

#76. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Peter McWilliams

#77. I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

Rebecca Romijn

#78. Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

Barbara Marciniak

#79. You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.

Toni Kroos

#80. When you start thinking that 'it is too high, it is too far away, it is too cold, it is too dangerous, it is too difficult, it is too improbable,' you lose your chance to reach your target! The golden road to your target and to all the targets is the idea that all is feasible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#81. When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

Alex Kurtzman

#82. Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Lou Reed

#83. When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Michael Schumacher

#84. Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is.

John Green

#85. When you're unsure of yourself," she said, "when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying, 'Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.' She's the power inside you, you understand?" ~August Boatwright

Sue Monk Kidd

#86. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

Emily Giffin

#87. When you start to get thousands of notes in your Evernote, you'll find searching them quickly is more and more important.

Jeremy Roberts

#88. When you start with an insult and end with a compliment, most people only remember where you started.

Faydra D. Fields

#89. That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Miles Davis

#90. Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Dagur Kari

#91. You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

Bruce Ellis

#92. You can tell it's going to be a good day when you start it by putting your shorts on backwards.

Me

#93. When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

Hans Vestberg

#94. The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#95. Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

Richard Engel

#96. It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.

Edward Snowden

#97. From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

Jamie Redknapp

#98. I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

Dana Plato

#99. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Douglas Adams

#100. I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

Ed Sheeran