Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."
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Starting
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B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on."
Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"There's nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point."
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"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
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"The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are."
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"There's a big difference between not settling and not starting."
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"I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!"
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement"
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"Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."
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"So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt."
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"We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent."
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"Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me."
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"I was home schooled starting in seventh grade."
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"Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop."
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"i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think."
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"Keep starting until you finish."
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"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
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"I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come."
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"I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up."
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"What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use."
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"Memory should be the starting point of the present."
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"I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it."
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"Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them."
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