Initial Resistance Quotes

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

For the first 42 years of my life, I was the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.

When we came into this business, everyone was against us.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

I love writing but I hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says. "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I don't want any trouble. I'll go peaceable-like.

When they first asked me to do 'Hulk,' my first instinct was to say no because I didn't think I had anything to say with the character, especially when they said, 'Please do what you did with 'Daredevil,' whatever that was.'

I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

There were certain things that I tried to do on 'Karamchand.' Initially, they were hated, but eventually everyone loved the characterization.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

I wasn't always a willing passer.

We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.

The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.