Launching Quotes

• If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.
  Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

  Denis Waitley

  Positive, Confidence, Buddhist

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• Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

  Denis Waitley

  Pads, Belief, Power Of Belief

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• If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

  Reid Hoffman

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Too Late

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• When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

  Raoul Dufy

  Confused, Heart, Littles

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• Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

  Tony Hsieh

  Business, Kind, Turns

  "Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Jordan, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

  Katherine Dunn

  Book, Thinking, Directors

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• I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

  David Talbot

  Regret, Imagine, Salons

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Criminals

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• Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Four, Months

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• Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

  John Yoo

  Mean, Wmd, Goal

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• I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

  Natasha Hamilton

  Wedding, Children, Careers

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• I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Summer, New York, Book

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• The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Diaries, Personal Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

  George Carlin

  Rain, Civilization, Space

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

  Herman Melville

  Sympathy, Firsts, Strange

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.455

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• If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

  Bill Nye

  Moon, People, Orbit

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• The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Successful, Editors

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• Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

  Angelo Sotira

  Business, People, Entrepreneur

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• Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pads, Small Beginnings

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

  Jim Palmer

  Profound, Movement, Revolution

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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner

  Space, Two, Trying

  1959 Speech to UNESCO Commission, in the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

  George Gilder

  Surprise, Entrepreneurship

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.166, Regnery Publishing

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