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The starting point of all achievement is desire. -- Napoleon Hill
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. -- John Dewey
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. -- W. Clement Stone
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. -- Wayne Dyer
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. -- Napoleon Hill
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. -- Mel Gibson
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. -- Alexander Graham Bell
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. -- Alberto Salazar
I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. -- Michelle Bachelet
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. -- Dan Millman
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings. -- Amby Burfoot
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school. -- Sean Maher
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without. -- Mitch Albom
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. -- Samuel Johnson
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. -- Cormac McCarthy
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop. -- Claude Debussy
Here it is: our collaboration with Project Spark . Instead of a traditional music video for GUILTY ALL THE SAME (feat. Rakim), we are giving you this as a starting line for you guys to create and share. This is the first interactive, remixable game. We look forward to seeing what you make with it. -- Joe
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was .... -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting. -- Arshile Gorky
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are. -- Steve Jobs
Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. -- Jason Calacanis
You know what? Starting a car company is risky. -- Henrik Fisker
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking -- Kenichi Ohmae
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone. -- Henri Matisse
Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly. -- Ted Lindsay
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful. -- Florence Nightingale
Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours. -- Robin Sharma
Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele. -- Fred Foster
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Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows. -- Jack Dorsey
Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects. -- Michelle Gielan
Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks. -- Tim Fargo
Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism. -- Amit Kalantri
Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today. -- Gary W. Goldstein
Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house. -- Don Cooper
Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more. -- Magenta Periwinkle
Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it. -- Richard Branson
I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust. -- Lisa Kleypas
Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas. -- Albert Brooks
Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important. -- Mariel Hemingway
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity. -- Jay Samit
Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose -- Ben Parr
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. -- Barack Obama
Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world. -- Gabrielle Giffords
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. -- John Hawkes
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness! -- Wilferd Peterson
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. -- Wilbur Smith
Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. -- George Eliot
I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything. -- Shania Twain
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. -- Maurice Saatchi
A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward. -- Harvey Mackay
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. -- Buddha
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. -- Igor Stravinsky
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. -- David Knopfler
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. -- Henry Rollins
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. -- Kirk Douglas
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. -- John Henrik Clarke
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest. -- Norm MacDonald
I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life. -- Kina Grannis
I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000. -- Niklas Zennstrom
The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Keep starting until you finish. -- Seth Godin
Talent is only the starting point. -- Irving Berlin
Halas didn't believe in starting rookies. -- Gale Sayers
Courage is crossing a starting line. -- Amby Burfoot
I like starting. It's pretty cool. -- Al Leiter
I'm starting to mistrust my judgment. -- Leona Helmsley
I'm just another guy starting out. -- Tim Tebow
The starting point is a question. -- Alberto Manguel
Talent is only a starting point. -- Irving Berlin
Our show is about starting over. -- Jai Rodriguez
Self-love is the starting point for everything. -- Susan L. Taylor
There's a fire starting in my heart -- Adele
A lot depends on the starting point. -- Howard Raiffa
I'm starting to find my own style. -- Kara Hayward
Small blogs are starting up big campaigns. -- Jessica Valenti
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. -- Earl Weaver
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I was home schooled starting in seventh grade. -- Austin Butler
I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums. -- Breaux Greer
I have no problem with starting from scratch. -- Leif Garrett
Sex is a good starting point for everything. -- Lauren Groff
The only purpose of starting is to finish -- Seth Godin
I'm starting with the man in the mirror -- Michael Jackson
Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher. -- Earl Weaver
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting -- Abel Ferrara
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! -- Sam Levenson
Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business. -- Sara Blakely
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. -- Thomas Carlyle
Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting. -- Erin Heatherton
Memory should be the starting point of the present. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. -- Abel Ferrara
I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again. -- Lee Majors
The power of the computer is starting to spread. -- Bill Budge
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Watching the ball is always a good starting point. -- Andrew Strauss
I think anybody starting any new career needs work. -- Mehcad Brooks
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting. -- Seth Godin
Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow. -- Ron Kaufman
I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once. -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
The search for religion is the starting point of thought. -- Xu Zhimo
I think that when something ends there's something new starting. -- Jeppe Hein
Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road. -- Carson Kressley
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again. -- Usain Bolt
I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason. -- Samantha Mumba
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. -- Andy Warhol
The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries. -- Jose Angel Gurria
I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer. -- Squarepusher
I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer. -- Squarepusher
There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish. -- Ellie Kendrick
Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile. -- Laura Schlessinger
I am starting to get tired of relying on words. -- David Levithan

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