Starting Quotes - Page 38

• Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something.  And your garden's your library.

  Nora Roberts

  Flower, Book, Garden

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.110, Penguin

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• I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

  Randy Harrison

  Erotic, Stopping, Done

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• I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

  Alison Bechdel

  Years, Mainstream Culture, Feminism

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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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• I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

  Felix Kramer

  Thinking, Effort, Victory

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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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• I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Tea, Cups

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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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• For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

  Tammy Bruce

  Beautiful, People, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.55, Crown Forum

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• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  Carol Leifer

  Thinking, Self, Starting Out

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

  Noah Levine

  Selfish, Pursuit Of Happiness, Training

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Goal, Simplicity, Outcomes

  "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.

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• There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Teacher, Simple, Thinking

  Frances Moore Lappé, Paul Martin Du Bois (1994). “The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives”, Jossey-Bass

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• Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

  Patty Duke

  Bipolar, Weight, Disease

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.152, Bantam

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• All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

  Robert Collier

  Limits, Return, Action

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Law of the Higher Potential”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Our starting point is not the individual:
  We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Views, Order, People

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• I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

  Georg Baselitz

  Fresh Start, Painting, Manifestos

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

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• Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Band, Records

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• We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

  Jeff Bezos

  Backwards, Touchstones, Customers

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• I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

  Mark Martin

  Winning, Mad, Wish

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• Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

  Justin Guarini

  Want, Jazz, Format

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

  Sam Altman

  Long, Life And Death, Riding

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• The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

  Aaron Levie

  Starting Out, Way, Disruption

  Twitter post from May 10, 2013

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