Starting Quotes - Page 20

• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  Bill Budge

  Starting Over, Computer, Spread

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• The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

  Bell Hooks

  Revolution, Fierce, Progressive

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

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• Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Climate, World, May

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• Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wind, Play, Grace

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Opposites, Planning, Strategy

  Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education

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• Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections others can’t, seizing opportunities others won’t, and forging new directions that others haven’t.

  Tory Burch

  Motivational, Jobs, Opportunity

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• Every time you go in, it's like starting over.
  You don't know how you did the other records.
  You're learning all over.
  It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

  Beck

  Starting Over, Over You, Musician

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• Our show is about starting over.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Starting Over, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

  Sue Wicks

  Player, Yesterday, League

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• One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

  Johannes Brahms

  Life And Love, Finishing, Pieces

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• I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

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• If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Finishing

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• I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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• I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Monday, Lying

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• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

  Tom Glazer

  Depression, Senior, Jobs

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• The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

  Confucius

  Strong, Giving Up, Enough

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• Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

  Jack Dorsey

  Smart, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  "10 Smart Quotes From 'Innovation Uncensored' Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

  John Mortimer

  Voice, Starting Out, Panic

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• I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teacher, Rocks, Answers

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother, who I lived with while I went to school. I was clean and finally starting to figure myself out. I can only say that now without laughing. I was still very out of my own place, and I didn't even know what that place was. All I knew was that I could write music, that I had no idea what that could mean and that I was still surrounded by people I couldn't relate to. I hadn't found my tribe yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Mother, Giving Up, Writing

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• If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective).

  Stephen King

  New York, Writing, Yankees

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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