Quotes About Starting

You have to get the attention of the audience. You have to make sure they know you are starting. You have to achieve a rapport with them on the very first chord.

Every player wants to be at Real Madrid, of course. I fought my entire life to be at the club, but only in the starting line-up.

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

I was 0-11 as a starter, and there were times when I walked off the field wondering if I'd ever win a game in the NFL.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Rain The rain keeps falling, Even in my dreams. The skull leaks badly. There's a constant dripping Down the back. The rain, which no one Remembers starting, Keeps falling, Even on the finest days.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

You don't have to be good at something or anything before you can begin to do it. Yes! just dare to begin. For once you start, you will surely, gradually and eventually become good, better and even the best at (doing) it. -Emeasoba George

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.

The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

Even if you watch the races I won - the indoor titles and the Olympics - I've never really been a superfast starter.

When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

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.