Top 1200 Starting Today Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

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

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Every future turns into the past. The richness of your past dictates what you are today. It's not your decision what you are today, but what you will be tomorrow. This is where a part of your decision comes into play.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life.

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

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

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

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

If someone announces me as a 'Christian rapper,' there's still an 'Eh, no thanks.' But perceptions are starting to change.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Today, nearly every competitive advantage of the past has been commoditized. Creativity is the one thing that can't be outsourced. The one thing that can separate a company, team, or individual from the competitive set. Today, precision execution is merely the ante to play. Sustained differentiation can only come from breakthrough creativity.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Very simply, a platform is the thing you stand on to get heard. It's your stage. But unlike a stage in a theatre, today's platform is not built of wood or concrete or perched on a grassy hill. Today's platform is built of people. Contacts. Connections. Followers.

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I'm sort of loving the feminine skirts and the cozy tops, especially when it's starting to get a little chilly out.

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

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

Pong can clearly be credited with having starting the coin-operated arcade videogame industry with a bang!

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

The songs that are getting recreated by us or fellow industry friends are because these songs were gold in their time and needed to be heard even today. Remixing them is a way to make them popular to the youth of today who haven't heard them before.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

People are starting companies at young ages. They fail fast, learn a lot, and keep going.

I act for my fans. I expect them to enjoy my performance rather than starting fan clubs.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.