Emily Giffin Quotes

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Half is done when the beginning is done.

You will never win if you never begin.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

It's only too late if you don't start now.