#starts

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ↗

— Irv Kupcinet

#day #diet #new #optimist #person

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#black #black and white #build #inside #moral

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achieved #climb #everybody #however #lasting

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful. ↗

— Lena Headey

#broken #chance #control #especially #exciting

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. ↗

— George Jessel

#brain #deliver #get #human #human brain

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#blocks #body #cry #even #frustrated

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. ↗

— Norton Juster

#exciting #get #i #i think #kids

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are. ↗

— Jay-Z

#cool #done #exchange #i #like

Everything starts from a dot. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#everything #starts

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#budgets #cannot #clean #clean up #continue