Starting Point Quotes

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

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

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

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

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.

where the world ends is where you must begin

Every step starts with a step.

I prefer starting. Anyone in this league does.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

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

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.