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However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started. -- Marilu Henner
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. -- Drew Houston
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. -- William Styron
I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there. -- Story Musgrave
I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South. -- Eric Lefkofsky
The secret of getting ahead is getting started -- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -- Mark Twain
The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started. -- Guy Kawasaki
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. -- Benjamin Franklin
The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts. -- Kobe Bryant
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. -- Dawson Trotman
People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started. -- Carmelo Anthony
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. -- Rick Perry
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever. -- Dan Rather
Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now. -- Conor Maynard
The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting! -- Robert H. Schuller
Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic. -- Chuck Inglish
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change. -- Ron Paul
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over. -- Ryan Gosling
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. -- Albert Camus
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here. -- Rob Bell
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started. -- Bill Gates
There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started. -- Eddie Van Halen
Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult. -- Emily Giffin
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started. -- Thom Mayne
At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. -- Gerard Arpey
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination. -- Brad Stone
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. -- Mark Twain
When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best. -- Freddie Hubbard
I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at. -- Mandy Moore
I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started. -- Nikki Sixx
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years. -- Ellen Gilchrist
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm. -- Seamus Heaney
I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career. -- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there. -- Al Walser
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite: Vigorous exercise actually is stimulating. It boosts your energy levels, invigorates your mind, and just feels good afterward. The hardest part, of course, is getting started. -- Jack LaLanne
I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started. -- Andy Partridge
Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think they have to give all of their spare time. But if you only have a half hour, you can still make a difference. Assisting with small tasks is invaluable. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life! -- Laurieann Gibson
Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf. -- Tracy Letts
It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started. -- Irwin Winkler
I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started! -- Marilyn Monroe
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse. -- Geoffrey Willans
Life started getting good when I started making money. -- Balthazar Getty
The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started. -- Dawson Trotman
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. -- James Worthy
Don't worry about getting it right. Just get it started. -- Marie Forleo
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes -- Jay London
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes. -- Jay London
You have to take what you could get when you're getting started. -- Selena
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. -- David Duchovny
I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation. -- Lynne Stewart
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them. -- Grace Jones
I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home. -- John Lennon
It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer. -- Jo Durie
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. -- Nigel Dennis
Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton. -- Bill Burton
I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious. -- Peter Jacobson
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. -- Kathleen Turner
The Girlfriend Experience' was definitely the break-out. When it came out, I started getting other opportunities. -- Sasha Grey
As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music. -- David Pajo
I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal. -- Theophilus London
As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles. -- Ray Liotta
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away. -- Josh Schwartz
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers -- Kathleen Turner
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro. -- Victoria Wood
I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published. -- David Labrava
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T. -- Grace Hopper
The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room. -- Ramit Sethi
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started. -- Terry Mosher
At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand. -- Bryce Wilson
I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being around people. -- Common
Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era. -- Big Sean
This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off. -- Bryant McGill
It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it. -- Ricky Hatton
Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum. -- Susan Collins
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection. -- Daniel Breaker
I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going. -- Tom Felton
I started to enjoy the regal sport of cockfighting... but I'm still having trouble getting the hang of windmilling the bayonet -- Josh Stern
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. -- Otis Blackwell
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. -- Kate Walsh
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. -- Elvis Presley
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. -- Fred Frith
As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young. -- Jane Fonda
I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides. -- Lisi Harrison
When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art." -- Yoshi Wada
I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. -- Lee Daniels
He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone. -- Wilt Chamberlain
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. -- Alicia Keys
I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else. -- George Carlin
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy. -- Flavor Flav
While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started. -- Walt Disney
When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac [Shakur] and watching his interviews. -- Tyga
I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder! -- Oprah Winfrey
It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was. -- Chris Hardwick
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked. -- Tim Robbins
Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well. -- Dwight Howard
When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997. -- Noreena Hertz
When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture. -- Sophia Bush
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine. -- Kenneth Anger
I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions. -- Marion Bartoli
We played in the Senior Bowl, ... I got MVP out of jamming his (expletive). It basically started there, with a long week of getting after each other. -- Fred Smoot
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill. -- Lizzo
The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos. -- Ice Cube
And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents. -- Betty Hill
I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world. -- Kate Spade
I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly. -- Kurt Wagner
At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans. -- ASAP Rocky
My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. -- Sid Haig
I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television. -- Rebel Wilson
Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it. -- Prince Fielder
I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble. -- Michael Shannon
The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions. -- Noam Chomsky
I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing. -- Arnold Palmer
I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do. -- Kurt Warner
Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to. -- Alex Rodriguez
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour. -- Nigel Rees
Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner. -- Israelmore Ayivor

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