Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
Michael Nesmith

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emile M. Cioran

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
Stephen Fry

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
William Kirby

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.
Just Fontaine

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.
Eddie Arcaro

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
Josh Lucas

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
Moshe Sharett

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
Bode Miller

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
Takeshi Kitano

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore