Starting Quotes - Page 30

• The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Purpose, Life Is

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2017

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• Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

  James H. Billington

  Reading, Adventure, Discovery

  James H. Billington (1988). “Books and the world”

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• The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Reality, Views

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Weed, Sweet, Writing

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• You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  Commencement Address at Howard University, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 04, 1965.

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• If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  People, Inspire, Trying

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• From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

  Janet Frame

  Memories, Darkness Within, Light

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Fashion, Men

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

  Erik Qualman

  Running, Technology, Media

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• Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Work Out, Childhood

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.191, Temple University Press

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• I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Dream, Athlete

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• Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

  Terry Fox

  Fundraising, People, Upset

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• If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Play, Ideas

  "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Mammals, Might

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• I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

  Michael Polanyi

  Facts, Humans, Knows

  Michael Polanyi, Amartya Sen (2009). “The Tacit Dimension”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

  Greg Mortenson

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

  Nick Bostrom

  Civilization, Firsts, Niche

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford

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• Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Thinking, Firsts

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• Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Years, Apples, Magic

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• The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first of all, and they have to tell the story so that their life depends upon it.

  Tony Grisoni

  Stories, Starting Out, Today

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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• Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Years, Giving

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• I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Secret, Next Steps

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• Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

  Rollo May

  Phrases, Movement, Interest

  Rollo May (2015). “The Discovery of Being”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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