Top 1200 Starting Point Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

My starting point is always to read a script and have a conversation with the director about what their vision is, and then, after that, I love to do research.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.

I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong. What is it that positions her as a force to be reckoned with? And I think it's because there's an expectation from the get-go that she isn't. If you're not starting from a deficit as a point of view, but you're starting from an assumption that says, "Well, this is what women really are," then it's a really freeing experience as an actor and as a woman.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

I don't look at Putin as a friend. I don't look at Russia. And I am very skeptical of what they're doing, their intentions. There are a lot of good people in Russia that don't have any say whatsoever. And they're starting to basically express their frustration, and starting marching, and hopefully getting their point across. So we've got to make sure that we put the hurt on the oligarchs, all the money, the way the money flows through Russia, and the people that benefit by it.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

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 thinking mind.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It's pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it's just a starting point.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

Strategy is the starting point for a transformation that needs to occur and how that company must change to win.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.