Top 77 Starting Point Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Starting Point Quotes from famous people such as Martin Jacques, Warren Mitchell, John Torode, Chelsea Clinton, Robert Collier, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The starting point for understanding the deterioration

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.
Martin Jacques
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
I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don’t necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.
John Torode
I’d ask myself, ‘What do I think is really unjust?’ That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
Chelsea Clinton
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
Robert Collier
Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.
Norman Davies
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
Robin S. Sharma
When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.
Alfred Amoroso
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
Yoshihiko Noda
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it’s a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That’s my favorite.
Shane McAnally
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let’s start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
Gary Johnson
My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.
Anastasia Soare
If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn’t mean you find everything. It’s only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.
Erno Rubik
Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
Justin Guarini
We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind – as of every other kind – are most abundant for New England.
Edmund Morgan
On ‘I’m A Celebrity’ it’s important to have chemistry and to have a friendship as a starting point you can grow from.
Holly Willoughby
The struggle isn’t just about being straight or gay or transgender – it’s a human struggle. That’s always really been my kind of starting point: If you’re out there and you’re odd, come over to my house.
Boy George
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stuck on a wall. They were rising. In my head, I think they were the best rolls I’ve ever had. If there was a starting point for me, that was it.
Paul Hollywood
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
Adolph Gottlieb
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
William H. McRaven
I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.
Lou Williams
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.
Karl Ove Knausgard
As a pure source of reference, ‘Modernist Cuisine’ is incredibly helpful. It’s like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It’s not always the answer, but it’s always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.
Wylie Dufresne
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
Shoes are a good starting point. I’ve become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable.
Jessica Raine
My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.
Rei Kawakubo
The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.
Chelsea Manning
The business model is both the starting point and the s

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.
Steve Blank
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
Harvey Mackay
Obama’s starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh’s starting point, and Obama’s rise was not as sharp.
Sanjaya Baru
Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you’ve got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you’re doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It’s very important never, ever, to feel above that.
Tom Stoppard
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
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
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.
Francis Schaeffer
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker
I’ve spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that’s only the starting point.
Steven Erikson
Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin
Fortunately I have a good support network around me but am I sitting here and saying to myself: ‘Should every football club have a creche?’ Yes. I think that’s the starting point.
Emma Hayes
That’s a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we – or can we – do with this lot of years with which we’re blessed? More than my other films, ‘The Danish Girl’ is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one’s self.
Eddie Redmayne
The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we’re broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.
Cory Gardner
Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end… This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today’s goal is only the starting point of tomorrow’s journey.
Sri Chinmoy
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
Ludwig Quidde
You can write a script, but that’s just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.
Jeff Lemire
Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that’s a wonderful starting point.
Melvyn Bragg
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It’s all working towards the same destination – the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I’m still taking the subway.
James McBride
I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.
Stella McCartney