To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando

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

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Karl Von Clausewitz

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman

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

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.
Tom Daschle

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Bret Harte

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley

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

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
John Hope Franklin