Quotes About Initiation

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I'm a slow starter.

I obviously want to be a starter.

I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.

Initiates were required to stand, lay their hand on their breast, and answer properly four questions: Do you have disrespect for any current member? Do you love mankind in general regardless of religion or profession? Do you feel people should ever be punished because of their opinions or mode of worship? Do you love and pursue truth for its own sake? Franklin

What man had ever been presented such an enticing feast? She was a mature virgin, primed and ready for sexual initiation. If he acceded, he could excite and stimulate her, teach and disclose to her the sexual methods he enjoyed. A devoted, zealous pupil, she would wield her distinct skills with lethal precision for his exclusive benefit and delectation.

[I]t behooves us as true Americans to enter the splendid new movement which is endeavoring to make the Fourth over from a day of shallow jingoism and unmeaning brutality and carnage into a day of initiation into the meaning of true citizenship and a festival of deep and genuine and beautiful patriotism.

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

is gleaned from both "books" together. The "contemplation of nature" (?????? ??????) and of the structures of meaning (?????) hidden within it, structures that are part of every single being, becomes for Maximus a necessary step, a kind of initiation, into the knowledge of God.

Truth is, nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness. She may never love you, not now or ever. And if you are courageous in initiating, extending, or deepening a difficult conversation, you may feel even more anxious and uncomfortable, at least in the short run.

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

that couples often fall into a pattern of demand and retreat—most often, the woman demands and the man retreats. This dynamic has arisen, she says, because men have less to gain by changing their behavior, while women are more likely to want to alter the status quo—which means they also initiate more fights.

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

In the most cosmic and most minute ways, physical experience springs from inner reality. Events are initiated from within and then appear without.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.