Starting Point Quotes - Page 10

• Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

  Gerard Way

  Writing, Thinking, Starting

  Source: collider.com

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• I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.

  Hannes Holm

  Acceptance, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of things that I thought were (and seems there's very good evidence not to believe) and therefore, my starting point was I think to tell his myth because that's what grabbed me.

  Jonathon Keats

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not the rights as set forth are truly universal or slanted to reflect the hegemony of Western values, especially those associated with liberal individualism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Western Values, Rights, Six

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

  George Zebrowski

  Fabric, Facts, Starting

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• Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.

  Joy Bryant

  Sleep, Cutting, Mindfulness

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

  August Sander

  Photography, Mirrors, Portraits

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• One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.

  Lawrence Summers

  Fall, Party, Names

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• For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

  Bill Walsh

  Philosophy, Water, Work Ethic

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.212, Penguin

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• A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

  David Dreman

  Real, Risk, Enhancement

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• A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

  Roberto Orci

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, People, Stories

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• Memory should be the starting point of the present.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Memories, Starting, Should

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• Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

  Zhuangzi

  Birth, Starting, Ends

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• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

  Planningtorock

  Classical Music, Starting, Concerts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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• I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Age

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• Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

  Ron Kaufman

  Strong, Today, Tomorrow

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• I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

  Vivek Shraya

  Ideas, Focus, Intention

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Iran deal is on life support, I'll put it that way, but I'm not here to declare one way or the other where it will go. But I do believe it's on life support. I know the president-elect does not like the Iran deal, thinks it's really, really bad. And that's sort of the starting point on that discussion.

  Reince Priebus

  Believe, Thinking, Iran

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Self, Eggs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Destiny, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The starting point is to create a qualitative understanding of market drivers. You need to get into the head of the consumer and be able to tell her story. It is both art and science. The purpose of the market map is to define dissatisfactions, hopes, dreams and fears. Winning solutions respond to the distinct and specific needs of a group of consumers.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Dream, Art, Winning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Wall, Air, Looks

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

  Melanie Phillips

  Atheist, Desire, World

  Melanie Phillips (2013). “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power”, p.79, Encounter Books

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