Starting Over Quotes - Page 8

• Life is the ability to start over again.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Life Is, Ability

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• The past does not define, you the present does.

  Jillian Michaels

  Past, Doe, Biggest Loser

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• I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, People, Life Is Precious

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Procrastination, Putting Things Off

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• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  Camilo Villegas

  Believe, Mean, Focus

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• It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

  Guido van Rossum

  Mistake, Should Have, Data

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Together, Tragedy

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• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

  Umberto Eco

  Missing, Youth, Glad

  "On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death". 2004.

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• Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Body, Blake, Paperwork

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• If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

  Bill Joy

  Running, Morning, Wall

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• With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

  Sylvia Plath

  Judging, Forever, Gone

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Block, Adventure, Thinking

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• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Journey, Cells, Hunters

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• I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

  August Wilson

  Finding Yourself, World, Fit

  August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”

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• If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Answers, Literature

  Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan

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• I don't want to make it sound too much like I'm telling people how to read the book A Thousand Pardons, but what Ben Armstead is doing, he's doing more or less on purpose as a very elaborate way of making a sacrifice in his personal life. He needs to start over. This is how he chooses to do it - by blowing up where he is.

  Jonathan Dee

  Book, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

  Carol Burnett

  Adversity, Wrestling, Work Out

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• A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're struggling more than you ought to with a draft, perhaps you've run out of interesting choices, or have given yourself too few choices to begin with. Go back to the complication, fatten it up, and start over.

  Monica Wood

  Running, Fun, Struggle

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• Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Success, Achievement, Insirational

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• If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.

  Andrew Gelman

  Thinking, Data, Advice

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.

  Rakim

  People, Mixtapes, Albums

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• It's okay to start over again.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Okay

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Watches, Facts

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• I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

  Burt Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Potters

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• If we don't get the deal we want, we leave NAFTA and start over to get a much better, a much more fair deal because right now, we're a one-way highway into Mexico, a one-way highway .

  Donald Trump

  Mexico, Want, Way

  Source: time.com

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