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

  Ron Kaufman

  Strong, Today, Tomorrow

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• Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

  Andrew Strauss

  Balls, Starting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

  Arianna Huffington

  Good Life, College, Greek

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• I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Book, Views, Sea

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sex is a good starting point for everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Sex, Starting

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lying, Party, Dancing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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• On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, World, Entering

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.103

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• The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Book, Adventure, Earth

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• The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

  Norman Cousins

  World, Belief, Starting

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

  Aristotle

  Words Of Wisdom, Starting, Metaphysics

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Science, Aquariums

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

  Percival Lowell

  Errors, Hands, Opposites

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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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