S Quotes
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“Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.”
“Starting in a hollowed log of wood — some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives.”
“Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.”
“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.”
“Starting in the '80s or so, after the United States sharply cut its rates, other countries decided they better do it too, and here's how you do it: you just wipe out the exemptions, the deductions, the credits, the depreciation allowances. And people complain, "Oh my God, it's terrible," but you give them much lower rates and you give them an easier form to file, and people accept that tradeoff.”
“Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.”
“Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.”
“Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.”
Source: What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
“Starting in the sixth century in China, Zen was formed by way of a creative synthesis of Buddhist teachings and practices imported from India with the Chinese traditions of Confucianism and especially Daoism. Centuries later, starting in the twelfth century, Zen was brought to Japan, where for eight centuries it has developed in conjunction with Japanese culture and Shintō sensibilities. Over the course of the last century, Zen has been imported to the United States and other Western countries, initially from Japan and later also from Korea, China, and Vietnam.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“Starting in the top left: fugu from Mikawa Bay, fried karaage style, and boiled Kano crab. To the right of that are grilled skewers of duck meatball and Kujo green onion, and tilefish tempura. Shogoin daikon and millet cake, baked in a miso glaze; Horikawa burdock and hamo fish cakes in broth. Below that are sake-steamed hamaguri clams, stewed Kintoki carrots and Kujo green onion, and the grilled fish is miso-marinated pomfret.”
Source: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
“Starting is Easy. Finishing Strong; is for the Tough.”
“Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.”
“Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.”
“Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.”
“STARTING IS THE FIRST SIGN OF MAKING YOUR AUTOGRAPH”
“Starting my carrer, I had three rules. I called a press conference and said: you can't kill me in a movie; I win all my fights in a movie; I get the girl at the end of the movie if I want her. They weren't about to hear that, and I knew that I would have to do that myself, but I set the public up and set the press up letting them know what I was going to do: continuing to sell the brand and image that I had.”
“Starting now, you're just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this age and with this visibility and with the skill sets that Kim is now giving me, I think I have a good chance of success in building something that has longevity, high integrity, high success rate, and is very fulfilling, not only for me creatively but also in adding fulfillment to people's lives. Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding magic.”
“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.”
“Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects.”
“Starting out a new day gives hope for new adventures, villains and hero's to cross your path. Make the most of it.”
“Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.”
“Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele.”
“Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.”
“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.”
“Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.”
“Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.”
“Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.”
“Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.”
Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Starting over is not a sign of failure. I look at it this way: A person enrolled at the wrong life college, underwent some hellish classes, passed a lot of difficult tests, majored in perspective, and a minored in minor things. However, they graduated at the top of their class and are now qualified to teach a course titled, How Not To Do That Ever Again.”
“Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.”
“Starting over isn't a sign of failure, but a symbol of courage and strength to go towards a new path”
“Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.”
“Starting points for new things jump in occasionally. Recently I started some new pieces after being blown away by snow.”
“Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance.”
Source: Manual For Fulfilling Your Purpose: Lessons from the book of Nehemiah
“Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.”
“Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.”
“Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.”
“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.”
“Starting the day—Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer—both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Starting the Day
The Legacy Letters
By Carew Papritz
Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil-made cough syrup. Because somehow along the way we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals-or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Starting the day well in the morning is gathering psychological strength against a day that may go badly! Life is a boxing match, every moment you spend well, accumulates the strength to resist the punches of possible bad moments!”
“Starting the week with the wind at my back as I glide into a world of endless possibilities.”
“Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more.”
“Starting this relationship seems to me one of the better things you've ever done, however it ends."
"We can't separate it from how it ends.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.”
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
“Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.”
“Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?”
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”