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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

Truth, Mistakes, Two

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Through, Start

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Hope, Everything, Wish

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Single, Before, Moment

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Thought, Old

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

End, Political, Language

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Soldiers, Week

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul

War, Another, American

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
Clint Eastwood

Worry, Off, Liberal

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
Bill Gates

Time, Rather, Less

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
Paulo Coelho

Feeling, Others, Listen

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Away, Left, Taken

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Through, Same, Start

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.
Hillary Clinton

Around, Language, Television

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

Goal, Another, Point

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle

Opinion, Minority, Precisely

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Long, Everything

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy

War, Christian, Hand

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

War, Hard, Eyes

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
Adele

Change, Weight, Size

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
Henry Rollins

Year, Lucky, Line

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall

Change, Happens, Listening

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Doug Coupland

Feeling, Everything, Year

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Work, Fun

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese

Everything, Paid, Luxury

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis Morissette

Family, Different, Through

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.
Ellen DeGeneres

Successful, Someone, Try

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
Earl Weaver

Next, Momentum, Pitcher

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