Starting Quotes - Page 39

• If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Teaching, Humble

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• When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

  Anne Lamott

  Progress, Scratches, Praying

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.25, Penguin

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• While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.

  Ron Paul

  Zero, War, Light

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  School, People, Foundation

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• People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

  Laura Poitras

  Talking, People, Information

  "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.

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• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mind, Singing, Trying

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• Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Rap, Simple

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• To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Stars, Feet

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Relationship, Important, Goes On

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• Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Earthquakes, Rocks, Feelings

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Care, Matter

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2012

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• There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Distance, Goal, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

  Russell Brand

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Complaining

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Love Is, Taught Us, Entrepreneur

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• I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM and that's really changed everything. Starting your day off with that and ending with that is pretty powerful. Twenty minutes, you just notice the difference. When I get lazy and don't get it in, I can feel a difference. I do it first thing when I wake up.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Powerful, Years, Differences

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

  Toni Packer

  Teacher, Mind, Together

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• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

  John Medina

  People, What If, Unhappy

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

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• I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

  Bruno Le Maire

  Children, Quality, Example

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• When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Long, Lucky, Actors

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• I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

  Kelly Preston

  Hero, School, Son

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• It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

  Kevin Nealon

  Fall, Getting Older, Causes

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