Starting Point Quotes

190 Starting Point quotes by 167 unique authors

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic"… — John of Salisbury
I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what… — Shiri Appleby
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point… — Melanie Phillips
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness… — Robert H. Schuller
I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown… — Mary Oliver
Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. — Irving Berlin
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the… — Eckhart Tolle
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world… — John Galliano
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it. — Rick Warren
Self-love is the starting point for everything. — Susan L. Taylor
'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but… — Gregory Palamas
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not… — Francis Schaeffer
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their… — Edgar Allan Poe
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can… — Frederic Bastiat
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?. — Hal Hartley
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement. — Napoleon Hill
Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. — Deborah
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed… — Leland Ryken
I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world. — Chelsea Clinton
Scientifically, I know beginnings don’t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me.… — Shannon Lee
What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race,… — Eleanor Duckworth
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did… — Michael Behe

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