Beginnings Quotations

People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.

What we're facing right now is the beginnings of a brand new marketplace.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Magical Beginnings is all about making our parks and resorts even more accessible and appealing to a huge and important group of people -- families with very young children. Magical Beginnings reinforces our commitment to creating an easy- to-plan, easy-to-navigate vacation filled with activities that allow families to create lifelong memories.

On a macro level, we are at the beginnings of an economic recovery, not as fast as some people want, and we may have some altercation with Iraq in the next six months. That uncertainty is putting the foot on the accelerator and pulling it off the accelerator at the same time.

McDonald's has done a terrific job of turning around. We're starting to see the beginnings of a sales resurgence in Europe, and that's exactly what we've been looking for.

New facilities are about new beginnings and endless possibilities,

But Europe has redefined and redesigned the regulatory architecture and the last year we saw the beginnings of products being approved. I passionately hope we will see that pace picking up.

He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human dignity. He was a humble man from ordinary beginnings who became a great man and a hero and one of our greatest teachers.

Had partition not occurred, or had it proved less controversial and problematic, there would be no sense of discomfort now about remembering the beginnings of independent Ireland.

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

We have some items in the museum that were donated directly by Wolf's family, ... Even though he moved to Chicago, he still returned to Clay County to hunt and fish. We have Wolf's personal hunting rifle on display, as well as unpublished photographs and even Wolf's passport from when he toured Europe and the UK. Basically, we have the museum structured to tell Wolf's story -- from his beginnings in White Station until his death in 1976. It's a tribute to his life.

We have a good nucleus and the beginnings of a team, and it is now a case of putting the right people with them.

There is intelligence information that there are people in Khartoum who were not in Khartoum before. In these situations it is to a certain extent conjuncture (but) it would be unwise not to take the beginnings of such warnings seriously.

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

This will allow Best Beginnings to move to a new level in improving the lives of young children in the town of Clinton.

We've climbed a long way here, gone a long way toward discounting the beginnings of this economic pickup. I don't really want to do any investing here. I'm raising cash on the hope that I get a better opportunity and better prices on a pullback.

When we took the company over it was a remnant in a way, compared to the major company. With two South Island owners, its really back to the beginnings in a way.

While there appears to be some signs of the beginnings of a recovery in the housing market and more positive news of Christmas trading from retailers, it is clear that companies are still finding it difficult to forecast in the current economic climate.

You can't deny where we're located. We do have the beginnings of gang activity. We do have some inner city issues, (which) if we want to make this a welcoming cultural center have to be addressed.

What happened was unpredictable but it also reminded many readers of their beginnings and their family recollections.

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

We do not think that investors have given up on the equity markets and we remain bullish over the next few months, ... the beginnings of an economic tailwind, the probability of needed incremental upward earnings revisions, reasonable valuation and relatively strong degrees of skepticism amongst investors we talk to.

As the growth of the film industry has progressed from humble beginnings to its present important position, the play has prospered.

As issues of climate change, energy security and fuel prices start to crop up more on consumer radar screens, we need to be able to meet that shifting demand. What you're seeing is just the beginnings of a growth in demand, but it's a very clear trend.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

The sharp price falls have seen the beginnings of some bargain hunting by consumers and investors, although whether this will be enough to turn the markets higher remains to be seen.

The state police felt it would be helpful if we could at least make that move. It helps them with crowd control at the beginnings of the games, because people are entering the facility during daylight hours.

Some people may have taken him for being arrogant or whatever, but there were an awful lot of people who enjoyed his style. He came from humble beginnings and he came on the scene at a time when he showed the world that the little guy, the guy who had to work from the ground up, could be a success in this business.

You're starting to see the beginnings of a shift in the center of gravity away from Bush and his agenda toward the next agenda and the next leader of the party.

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

This flexibility has not been enough, but there are some signs that show the beginnings of a development on the part of the Israelis,

They should give us a call. We're not like Pet Smart, where classes have beginnings or ends. We work on specific issues like dog aggression or dominance. We make sure they're good citizens before going out meeting the world.

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

This is the rush for a global proposition. It's very evident, with the moves from Electronic Arts and others, that we're at the beginnings of real scale in this industry, and the winners are going to be those who can offer a global solution.

This map is truly a new window on the Antarctic continent, providing new beginnings in our Earth science studies there,

There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we've seen the beginnings of that. The work of Ian and Karen McAllister has been invaluable,

It was the beginnings of what would later become electric blues and eventually become rock and roll.

It mixed the bulldoze-and-rebuild philosophy of urban renewal with the tentative beginnings of the historic preservation movement.

It's not unusual when you first start to see the beginnings of a rate increase, that the immediate effect is an acceleration of sales as people try to lock in the lower rates,

That really placed him on the archaeological map. It really helped the beginnings of the rewriting of Egyptian history.

It was 200 years ago that the folks who settled Watertown, the Coffeen's, the Massey's, et cetera, gathered here on this location and formed the beginnings of a community. We are what we are today because they were willing to take the chance and move here with their families, facing an uncertain future, no real livelihood, and probably a pretty foreboding environment,

It's really the beginnings of a day resource center.

In Britain the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable.

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

Investors are edgy and nervous. That tends to mark the beginnings of rotation.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but its the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.

You could probably tell from the early beginnings maybe a tenseness and the pressure that was on the home team. We never have that luxury.

The end of 1996 and beginning of 1997 brought a Pearl Jam European tour and the beginnings of preparation for the recordings of "Yield.

The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.

The majority of men are bundles of beginnings