#starting point

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

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#literature #observing #oneself #point #starting

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

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

Talent is only the starting point. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#point #starting #starting point #talent

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

— Napoleon Hill

#desire #everything #hope #keen #point

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#achievement #desire #point #starting #starting 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

#adequately #armageddon #bad #both #bring

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

— Yoshihiko Noda

#children #education #fathers #interactions #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

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin