#starting point

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

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

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

#be happy #begin #buy #charge #choose

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

#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

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

— Rob Portman

#even #fix #good #point #security

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

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

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

#existing #field #his #intellectual #knowledge

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

— Robert Collier

#limits #motion #point #possibilities #returns

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

#become #book #bring #collection #cultures

The search for religion is the starting point of thought. ↗

— Xu Zhimo

#religion #search #starting #starting point #thought

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#dialogue #eucharist #final #only #outcome