Top 206 Outset Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

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.

Even women are perfect at the outset.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.

A poll survey should indicate at the outset whether it is meant to capture opinions and beliefs for preferences and practices or value and perceptions.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.

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 bold effort of a valiant mind.

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

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, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.

That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.