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Beginning Work Quotes

13 quotes from 3 authors

Starting a fresh project feels like stepping onto thin ice, and these voices capture the tension. Early attempts often bring regret when we ignore limits, yet quotes celebrate the daring spark that fuels every first stroke; for depth, see Creative Process and Artistic Failure pages, where collections dissect habits and setbacks.

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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

John D. Rockefeller

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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

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Making the beginning is one third of the work

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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Myself and every Knockout in the company at the beginning worked so hard to build up a credible women's division in TNA…

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What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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“[...] and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we…

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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“Lord created me at the beginning of his work, The first of his acts of long ago.”

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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials…

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When you're young, you start looking at what you want to do - not just who you want to be, but what…

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“It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive…

Lon Milo DuQuette

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“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks…

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