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I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really… — James Cameron
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth
You won't win if you don't begin. — Robert H. Schuller
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. — Vita Sackville-West
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. — E L Doctorow
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it. — George MacDonald
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Vows begin when hope dies. — Leonardo da Vinci
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail. — John Milton
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. — Mason Cooley
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. — Sallust
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one. — Sallust
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong… — Ronald Reagan
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.… — Stephen Leacock
Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life… — Bruce Catton
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
... where does one person end and another person begin? — Iris Murdoch
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting… — Thor Heyerdahl
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. — Randall Jarrell
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they… — Barbara Ehrenreich
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too… — Marlo Thomas
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. — Norbert Wiener

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