Beginning Quotes

• If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Interesting

• I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was 'Early Edition' as reporter no. 1, and for 'Light It Up,' I was reporter no. 2.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Up
  • Job
  • Career

• The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

  

  Plato
  • Beginning
  • Stage
  • Enterprise

• For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Faith
  • Christian

• From every ending comes a new beginning.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Beginning
  • New Beginnings

• I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Up
  • Career
  • Balance

• Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Work
  • Song
  • Wall

• It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Peace

• When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Children
  • Beginning
  • Sun

• I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

  

  David Small
  • Parents
  • Understanding
  • Beginning

• I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Together
  • Broken

• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Universe

• As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Time
  • Beginning

• I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I wanted to present stuff in museums and galleries and have some presence on the web. I feel fortunate to have posted stuff in the beginning.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Beginning

• To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Beginning
  • Feel
  • Right

• Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Contains

• I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Beginning
  • Empty

• Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Light
  • Couple

• From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • Culture
  • Beginning

• In the beginning, my first clients were Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, and all different types of women.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beginning

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