Quotes About Beginning

It is only the first step that is difficult.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —MARK TWAIN

Can you shoot?" he said afterwards to Lord Gerald. "I can fire off a gun, if you mean that," said Gerald. "You have never shot much?" "Not what you call very much. I'm not so old as you are, you know. Everything must have a beginning." Mr. Dobbes wished "the beginning" might have taken place elsewhere; but there had been some truth in the remark.

I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a novel with two long dull chapters full of description.

CHAPTER I DILLSBOROUGH

CHAPTER XXXIII THE BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION

Postoji u meni nešto užasno, što raste i što ne poti?e od mene samog, ve? iz mrakova koje nosim u sebi, što poti?e odande gde ?ovekova duša ne zna gde po?inje a gde se završava njegovo Ja, niti šta ga je nateralo da zapo?ne onako kako misli da je zapo?eo.

Keep your soul free. What matters most in life is not knowledge, but character … There is a knowledge other than that which is of the domain of memory: the knowledge of how to live. Study must be an act of life, must serve life, must feel itself impregnated with life. Of the two kinds of men, those who endeavor to know something, and those who try to be someone, the palm is to the second. What we know is like a beginning, a rough sketch only; the man is the finished work.

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A middle is that which follows something as some other thing follows it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

Well begun is half done.

For the beginning is thought to be more than half of the whole, and many of the questions we ask are cleared up by it.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, How do I begin to jump? you would merely reply, Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.

everything in space-time that will later become our universe is contained in that small volume producing the awesome light.

You see," Nicole added, "the mythological Eden was a beginning, the start of what we might call our modern Western culture.

To begin at the beginning.

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

The wind blows hard among the pines Toward the beginning Of an endless past. Listen: you've heard everything.