Quotes about Start

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

Art - Start

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Richard P. Feynman

Scientist, Physicist, Physicist

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Difficulty - Good - Points - Possibility - Solution - Start

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

Motivation - Start - Success - Zone

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Betting - Habit - Right - Service - Start

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Prevent - Start - Work

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Ability - Fighting - Making - Sharing - Start - Studying - Wants

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

Protecting - Start - Trial

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Critic

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Exploration - Knowledge - Start - Willing

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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Beginner - Children - Having - Publishing - Start - Thinking - Writing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

Earth - Problem - Start - Thinking - Universe

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

Conflict - Giving - Propaganda - Reason - Start - Victory - War

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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Making - Start - Story - Watching - Worrying - Writing

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Andy Warhol

Artist, Director, Producer

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Friendship - Start - Wellness

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Arthur C. Clarke

Writer, Futurist

When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

Death - Start

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Simon Sinek

Historian, Author, Author

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Start - Trial

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Pablo Picasso

Painter, Sculptor, Poet, Playwright

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Finishing - Follower - Sameness - Searching - Start

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Start - Strength

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Pablo Picasso

Painter, Sculptor, Poet, Playwright

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Art - Follower - Start

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Excitement - Feelings - People - Start - Talk

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