Starting Quotes - Page 3

• America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, Missing, Culture

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.

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• Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

  Vito Acconci

  Real, Air, Typewriters

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

  Sasha Grey

  Tacky, Beef, Unnecessary

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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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• It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

  Martha Beck

  Purpose, Places Of Peace

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• Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

  John Collison

  Technology, Ideas, People

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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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• 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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• I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

  Leona Helmsley

  Judgment, Mistrust

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• Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

  Chick Corea

  Inspiration, Careers, Icons

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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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• Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• 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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• I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

  Francis Bacon

  Regret, Paint, I Regret

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• The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

  Seth

  Purpose, Ships, Projects

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• I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already been written. I'm making the margin, but the margin of a book that already exists. I was having this exhilaration at, but at the same time horror of this recognition that I'd driven myself into the world of only books. This is a world of the previously written, and maybe I don't have to add to it, maybe all I can do is measure it.

  Vito Acconci

  Book, Writing, Exhilaration

  "A Conversation with Vito Acconci". Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

  Ben Lerner

  Mean, Order, Octopus

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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