Quotes About Beginning

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

The desire to start something at the "right" time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.

The most important step is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don't get it perfect, get it going. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing.

Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing.

now is always the best time to begin.

Any beginning is a time of special power for habit creation, and at certain times we experience a clean slate, in which circumstances change in a way that makes a fresh start possible—if we're alert for the opportunity.

Hiçbir ÅŸey, asla baÅŸlamayan bir görevden daha yorucu deÄŸildir.

Each day gave me a new opportunity to push the task off until tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'd feel like dealing with it. "Start now," I finally thought. "Just take the first step." I started with the smallest possible step

couldn't just jump into this happiness project. I had a lot to learn before I was ready for my year to begin. After my first few weeks of heavy reading, as I toyed with different ideas about how to set up my experiment, I called my younger sister, Elizabeth. After

Once we're ready to begin, begin now.

El arte abstracto no existe. Siempre tienes que empezar por algo y, luego, puedes eliminar cualquier rasgo de realidad.» Pablo Picasso

Mindst tænkte jeg da paa, at mit Livs alvorligste eventyr skulde begynde, at en Begivenhed, der engang havde beskæjftiget mig saa levende og stærk, det tabte Frøkorn, glemt og uset, nu vilde vise sig, som en grøn, duftende Væxt, der slyngede sig fast om mit eget Livstræ.

There is more day to dawn; the sun is but a morning star.

Then in the slow creeping course of eternity the utmost cycle of the cosmos churned itself into another futile completion, and all things became again as they were unreckoned kalpas before. Matter and light were born anew as space once had known them; and comets, suns and worlds sprang flaming into life, though nothing survived to tell that they had been and gone, been and gone, always and always, back to no first beginning.

For the people of Ulthar were simple, and knew not whence it is all cats first came.

Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up, and look across the gardens, lawns, greenhouses, sheds and curtained windows. I wanted my life to begin now, at this instant, just when I was ready for it.

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.

Hubiese querido que mi vida empezara entonces, en aquel preciso instante, cuando estaba preparado para ello

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.