Starting Quotes
1743 Starting quotes by 1426 unique authors
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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would…
— Bill Nighy
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I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
— Lesley Garrett
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I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with…
— John H. Johnson
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I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.
— Anthony Goldbloom
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Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
— John Collison
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved…
— Ralph Macchio
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to…
— Rachel Cusk
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To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table -…
— Ellen Gustafson
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When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
— Alison Gopnik
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Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that…
— Beth Simone Noveck
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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
— Erin McKean
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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent,…
— Hanna Rosin
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Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers…
— Harsha Bhogle
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that…
— Mae Jemison
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I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can…
— Unknown Author
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American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other…
— Reza Aslan
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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out…
— Nolan North
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Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix…
— Landon Liboiron
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I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.
— Jennifer Saunders
Who Wrote These Starting Quotes
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