Quotes About Initiation

Firsts are special.

It has always been my experience that I never benefited much from a move if I did not get in at somewhere near the beginning of that move.

That was where our fishing began

And so it begins again …

The car starts the first time he turns the key.

When you start out somewhere, you've got to get your feet wet. You got to find your place.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

As soon as the whistle blows, something triggers me.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

My first film was 'Thiranottam.' I cannot discount that film because I got initiated into films with it.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Be ready; now is the beginning of happenings.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Our own culture has pseudo-rituals instead. There are many pseudo-initiations for men in our culture. Conscription into the military is one. The fantasy is that the humiliation and forced nonidentity of boot camp will "make a man out of you." The gangs of our major cities are another manifestation of pseudo-initiation and so are the prison systems, which, in large measure, are run by gangs.

Seen through the eyes of Arab alchemists, or Persian mystics, the earliest Greek philosophers weren't just thinkers or rationalists. They were links in an initiatory succession

Every dream starts small. But you need to start. Today.

the first thing we love is a *scene*. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness...what is immediate stands for what is fulfilled: I am initiated: the scene *consecrates* the thing I am going to love

She didn't explain. So knowing that, where would you start?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.

Alice thought to herself I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

Every adventure requires a first step.

I think I could, if I only know how to begin.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

Dans chaque fin, il y a un début.

It's just a little initiation we have here at Spence - we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.