Outset Quotes

102 quotes by 90 authors

In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As… — Chris Hadfield
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.… — Richard Branson
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of… — Havelock Ellis
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger
It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to… — Greg L. Bahnsen
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset,… — Richard Stallman
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them… — Bartolome de las Casas
Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should… — Rick Doblin
The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into… — Brad Steiger
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at… — William Gaddis
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a… — Rene Cassin
I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. — Jessye Norman
Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.… — John F. Kerry
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. — Lewis Thomas
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a… — George Crabbe

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