I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
Christiane Amanpour

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Bo Bennett

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
Moshe Dayan

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
Jared Diamond

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
Tommy Franks

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Jeanette Winterson

I begin by considering an effect.
Maurice Ravel

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Pope Paul VI

If you begin a conversation about potato salad and find yourself being called a castrating bitch, don't waste your time going around and around about this with your girlfriends, trying to figure out what happened.
Merrill Markoe

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
Meg Whitman