Starting Quotes - Page 3

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  Daniel Bell

  Self, Intellectual, World

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company.

  Fred Wilson

  Moving, Past, Organization

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• Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

  Christopher Morley

  Add

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• Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

  Kevin James

  Phones, Next, Cases

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

  Jim Davis

  Children, Struggle, Reading

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• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  Dan O'Brien

  Communication, Athlete, Successful

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• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Mexican, Ingredients, Latino

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• Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  Jim Morrison

  Revolt

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• I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

  John Howard

  People, Mind, Important

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  Dan Brown

  Glasses, Blood, Ideas

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Faults, Blame

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• During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.

  David Sedaris

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

  Leona Helmsley

  Judgment, Mistrust

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• I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.

  Alice Sebold

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Real, Years, Skills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

  Michael Pitt

  Interesting, Cameras, Digital

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Believe, Dark

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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• When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Writing, School, Bridges

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• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  Michael Arrington

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Majority

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• America has been very open to immigrants in terms of laws, getting loans - it has been helping immigrants more than it's been helping African Americans in starting a small business. That's key, whether you're starting a restaurant or a laundromat.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Keys, Law, America

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• Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

  Liza Johnson

  College, Expectations, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Thinking, Careers, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and television, and I figured television had to be more fun than plastics.

  Chuck Barris

  Fun, Trying, Television

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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