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Quotes About Beginning

Néanmoins, en 1819, époque à laquelle ce drame commence, il s'y trouvait une pauvre jeune fille. En quelque discrédit
~ Honore de Balzac
And a good many bourgeois marriages have had their beginning to the sound of the band occupying the centre of this circular ballroom. If that roof could speak, what love-stories could it not tell!
~ Honore de Balzac
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
~ Horace
From the egg.
~ Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
~ Horace
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
~ Horace
art of teaching—and the difficulty of learning—is getting people to place themselves at the beginning of that cycle, to plunge to the bottom, so they can start the learning process.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Speaking out is a necessary beginning, but not the same as real change.
~ Howard Schultz
Proof of the beginning of time probably ranks as the most theologically significant theorem. This great significance arises from the theorem establishing that the universe must be caused by some Entity capable of creating the universe entirely independent of space and time. Such an entity matches the attributes of the God of the Bible but is contradicted by the gods of the eastern (and indeed all other) religions who create within space and time.
~ Hugh Ross
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
~ I. M. Pei
Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you'd thing the old man slept on the bottom bunk, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.
~ Ian Caldwell
Whatever she had started started small.
~ Unknown
Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.
~ Ian Rankin
We're ready for the off, then.
~ Ian Rankin
Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.
~ Ian Rankin
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
~ Ian Tattersall
I guess a lot of players got this story to tell No matter how cold you roll you simply cannot win It's always fun in the beginning But pain in the end —ICE, "PAIN
~ Unknown
on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.
~ Unknown
The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * *
~ Idries Shah
Desde el comienzo, desde la edad de Adán hasta la época de las monarquías: del poderoso, perdón; del pobre, pecados.
~ Idries Shah
Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo...nunca debe acabar de esta manera.
~ Idries Shah
Cuando tienes un principio con el que están todos de acuerdo, obtienes lo que es el comienzo de la complacencia y el deterioro.
~ Idries Shah
Por qué entonces no empezar a partir de cero? Nada está perdido cuando reconocemos que todo está perdido y hay que volver a empezar.
~ Unknown
You don't need to know everything that you want or need to do from the very beginning. Sometimes having a complete plan and trying to stick to it makes things more difficult. You just need to start, and then keep going.
~ Ilchi Lee