We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn’t, we’d probably be out of business...

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written...

There’s sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles...

When you start to think about politicians, you’ve got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can’t tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually...

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn’t really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you...

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I’d start coming into my own.

My fondest hope is that ‘Roots’ may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

The other day I tried to design a finish line, but I didn’t know where to start. So I just sat there and drank Gatorade. Ah, but that’s life, no?

There’s no problem with starting small. The bigger problem is remaining small

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill...

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning,...

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.

When people see me on TV, they become very happy because they don’t have to interact with me. When they start interacting with me, they ask me questions like I’m a baby or treat me...

When I joined Granada – which, you don’t want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that...

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

Also, if you have an accident, you can’t start to dance again at the top, you’re too weak; you start with the easy things – the way you did them when you were young, and...

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms....

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my...

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there – and bigger.

Its been enough enjoying now, let’s begin achieving.

I didn’t start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I’m proficiently conservative.

Pantera is the only band I’ve ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

Be conscious of the global elements in your dreams. When starting local, dream of taking it global sooner.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

I’m not really one of those people who believes that if you’re a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It’s easy to get distracted by the wrong...

My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a ‘fingermill’ – a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more...

It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start...

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I’ve found something that I feel I, as ‘Michael,’ can be as confident in as ‘Johnny’ was on the stage. It’s great being part of the...

You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Entrepreneurs see the “no diving” sign and back-up to get a running start.

Two forces, fear and power,come together at a place called BEGIN. Bust through the fear to get to the power and BEGIN the life you are entitled to live.

When I write songs, it’s very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just...

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

In the U.S., it’s like, you start with a great script, and then on set – not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group – you go off, and you’re improvising on camera. So while...

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was – Stage....

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

The part you don’t expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring...