Top 100 You Have To Start Quotes
#1. You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it.
Rae Earl
#2. There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.
Ani DiFranco
#3. A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habits. When disillusion sets in, love can begin.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#4. My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.
Marian Seldes
#5. You have to start living your life for the future that you're alive for, not the past the you're willing to die for.
Harper Sloan
#6. In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
Candis Cayne
#7. Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.
Rita Zahara
#8. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
#9. To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#10. A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose."
"A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.
Garth Nix
#11. We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#12. When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
John Spence
#13. It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love
I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.
Lauren Conrad
#14. There has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee.
Noam Chomsky
#15. What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
Isaac Marion
#16. Dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.
Austin Kleon
#17. There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started ... at the beginning.
Kimon Nicolaides
#18. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#19. I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting. So I say, lie to me and lie to me well. The only way to write well is to write accurately. Accuracy is not about the reader, it's about the subject and the character.
A.M. Homes
#20. I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
Suzanne Farrell
#21. I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
#22. If you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#23. History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.
Peter Kuznick
#24. When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
Grimes
#25. Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.
Lauren Graham
#26. With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
Dani Shapiro
#27. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.
Terri Farley
#28. If you're dreaming big, #GIRLBOSS, don't be discouraged if you have to start small. It worked for me.
Sophia Amoruso
#29. Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
Stephen Collins
#30. So much affirmation ends up sounding like a murder of crows passing overhead and it is easy to be afraid of murder-by-crow-- though sometimes you have to start flapping your arms and follow them.
Lucia Perillo
#31. To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now
Eckhart Tolle
#32. I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.
Andrew Chan
#33. Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to ... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Whitey Ford
#34. But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.
Molly McAdams
#35. Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
William, Saroyan
#36. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
Julia Cameron
#37. I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.
Carl Hart
#38. Divorce is a death. It is the death of a relationship. It is the death of your dreams. You have to start all over.
Abigail Trafford
#39. Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
Twyla Tharp
#40. You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
Julian Assange
#41. It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.
Greg Gutfeld
#43. God is another way of talking about the power to break things, that's all. When you mean to break a goblet or a bone, well, just do it and be done. But when the things to be broken get big enough you have to start talking about God.
Catherynne M Valente
#44. One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Terry Pratchett
#46. It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.
Elaine Dundy
#47. If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#48. You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself
about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time
is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used
the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole
different story.
Diane Sawyer
#49. There are three keys in everything we want to accomplish in life.
1 Starting Point
2 Development/growth
3 Promotion
You have to start somewhere in order to develop or gain growth which will lead to a promotion. There is no promotion without a process.
Euginia Herlihy
#50. Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin
#51. You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.
Chris Pratt
#52. You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.
David Mitchell
#53. You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#54. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
Salma Hayek
#55. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis Morissette
#56. If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
Robert Duvall
#57. When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.
Sarah Burton
#58. You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.
Dalai Lama
#59. Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
Dan Scanlon
#60. You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
John D. MacDonald
#61. 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
#62. Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
Mireille Guiliano
#63. To create an Ocean you have to start with the droplets
Alok Jagawat
#64. A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
Sam Worthington
#65. You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
Christopher Meledandri
#66. To become an executive chef, you have to start at the bottom, learn the ropes, know the kitchen, and know the basics. Be okay with having someone constantly telling you what to do. Be a team player. Oh,
Jane Bedell
#67. The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.
Jane Lynch
#68. You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
Andrew Young
#69. You have to start seeing yourself as a product of your lifestyle - because you are.
Dan Edwardes
#71. The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.
Jack Dorsey
#72. If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.
Bryant McGill
#73. You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.
Guy Kawasaki
#74. Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
Steve Buscemi
#75. Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.
Stephenie Meyer
#76. In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
Amanda Schull
#77. It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.
David Levithan
#78. When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. I didn't leave you to hurt you," she whispered.
"But it did."
"I spent seven years on the receiving end of pain. I'm ready to be on the giving end."
"Did you have to start with me?
Tiffany Reisz
#80. I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
Raf Simons
#81. As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.
Mitch Hedberg
#82. You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Zig Ziglar
#83. Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
Anne Ursu
#84. At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.
Poppy Z. Brite
#85. If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
Estelle Morris
#86. You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.
Pablo Picasso
#87. I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.
Stephen King
#88. If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
Vinod Khosla
#89. You have to start somewhere,' he said. 'You climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill.
Brad Stone
#90. You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere ... Eventually, you'll get there.
Jennie Finch
#91. Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.
Raul Garcia
#92. You don't have to be great to start, you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
#93. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.
Erica Jong
#94. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#95. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#96. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
Richard Castle
#97. I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
Vincent Schiavelli
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
Leah Chase
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