Starting Point Quotes

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Hope, Wish, Desire

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Desire, Point, Starting

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

Purpose, Point, Starting

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

Goal, Another, Point

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

Good, Point, Starting

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

Point, Limits, Starting

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

Alone, Point, Behavior

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
Francis Schaeffer

Important, Living, Themselves

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

Talent, Point, Starting

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
Warren Mitchell

Life, Society, Happy

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

Today, Energy, Point

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
Bjorn Lomborg

Good, Bad, Challenge

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

Point, Excitement, Private

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
Yoshihiko Noda

Education, Children, Between

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames

Corruption, Point, Sin

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
Rob Portman

Good, Social, Point

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Michael Behe

Simple, Light, Able

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame

Down, Light, Place

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.
John Galliano

Travel, Book, Understand

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi

Goal, Point, Simplicity

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.
Estelle Morris

Good, Government, Nothing

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
Ludwig Quidde

Point, Present, Taken

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
Justin Guarini

Point, Stay, Jazz

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

Mean, Trying, Find

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell

Knowledge, Self, Point

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Xu Zhimo

Religion, Thought, Point

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

History, Important, 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.
Dan Hawkins

Off, Point, Started

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!
Cecily von Ziegesar

Saying, Point, Books

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Jacques Ellul

Work, Today, Woman

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