There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.
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 gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.
Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.
All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.
Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.
These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.
Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.
Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin.
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
There is a wealth of information built into us. . . tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells. . . without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.
The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
Success begins to chase us when we begin chasing our passions.
If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall. . . . [p. 218 ff. ]