Quotes About Starting

Empty moving boxes piled in a heap—the cardboard symbols of starting over

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.

There is a note of relief. They have somewhere to start, even if it is the worst place imaginable.

We're starting with the villain," Martin interjected. "Because they are the most fun.

I think that we all share the intuition that the latter case would feel worse, even though that version of you trained for distance running and actually ran 16 miles of a 26.2-mile race, compared with the version of you that never got off the couch. The reason it feels worse is that if you don't try, if you never start the race, there is no failing to reach the finish line because you never set that as a goal for yourself in the first place.

But for so many of us, that fear of falling short makes us not want to start. As Richard Thaler quipped, "If a gold medal in the Olympics is the only grade that passes, you do not want to ever take your first gymnastics class.

Since I was promoted to the America MG first team, there was already pressure on me. In my third game at America, I was already in the starting line-up.

I distinctly remember last Christmas seeing you together and thinking how happy you looked, and wondering why. You'll find it very disturbing, you know, starting off again. How old are you—thirty-four? That's no age to be starting.

Starting you automatically gets into your rhythm faster. Coming off the bench, you're colder; it can be harder at times.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me.

If you've got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.

All you can do is start from where you are.

Say what you want about the modern world and all its evils. But the emptiness of the area was starting to press on him.

It isn't at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.