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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain / Author
Motivational
Getting Started
Secret
Started
Ahead
Getting
The Secret Of
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The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.
Dawson Trotman /
Getting Started
Wasted Time
Wasting Time
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The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.
Guy Kawasaki / Author
Getting Started
Hardest
Hardest Thing
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However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
Marilu Henner / Actress
Excuse
Getting Started
Perfectionism
Getting
However
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People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
Carmelo Anthony / Basketball Player
Getting Started
Started
Game
Game Me People
Getting
Look Me People
Look
Look Game Me
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And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.
Rick Perry / Governor Of Texas
Challenging Status Quo
Challenging The Status Quo
Defenders
Getting Started
Messages
Status Quo
Liberals
Quo
Status
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We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
Grace Hopper / Computer Scientist
Change
Getting Started
Model T
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I don't care what you label me or how many times you come for me. I am fearless, and I'm just getting started.
Tomi Lahren /
Don't Care
Getting Started
I Am Me Care
How Many Times
Label
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
Dan Rather / Journalist
Doubt
Forever
Getting Started
Growing Up
Journalism
No Doubt
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Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
Conor Maynard / Singer-Songwriter
Advice
Getting Started
Giving
Online
People
Uniqueness
Now
Your People Style
Show
Getting
Off
Show Off
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
J. K. Simmons /
Concern
Credibility
Getting Started
Affect
Commercials
Tv And Film
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If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
Drew Houston / Entrepreneur
Dream
Getting Started
Lifetime
Planning
Ready
Should
Study
Started
Doing
Getting
Spend
Studying
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I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
Ryan Gosling / Actor
Getting Started
Meeting
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Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.
Chuck Inglish /
Flavor
Getting Started
Smell
Therapeutic
Vegetables
Great Together People
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You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.
Ry Cooder / Musician
Getting Started
Phases
Sixties
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
Eddie Van Halen / Musician
Accomplished
Albums
Getting Started
Wall
Million
Sold
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Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.
Emily Giffin / Author
Completion
Difficult
Getting Started
Hours
Involved
Projects
Started
Often
Getting
Overwhelm
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In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
Thom Mayne / Architect
Architecture
Buying
Doctors
Getting Started
Arrive
Bailing
Boats
Lawyers
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
William Styron / Novelist
Each Day
Feelings
Fine
Getting Started
Pain
Pleasure
Warm
Writing
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I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.'
Megan Mullally / Actress
Getting Started
Late
Opposite
Oh
Bloomer
Gettin
Older
Guess
Feel Always Never
Late Bloomer
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At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
Gerard Arpey /
Travel
Century
Getting Started
Quarters
Three
Airlines
Lasted
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
Rafael Dos Anjos /
Getting Started
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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
Brad Stone /
Combination
Getting Started
Mercenary
Missionary
Existed
Potent
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When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.
Mark Zuckerberg / Programmer
Bigger
Getting Started
Identity
Anonymous
Facebook
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I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.
Nikki Sixx / Musician
Conquer
Getting Started
Goal
Mountain
Want
Started
Feel
Am
Climb
Mountains
Getting
Leave
Got
Planet
Scars
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I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.
Marty Stuart / Singer-Songwriter
Cash
Getting Started
Memphis
Young Guys
Beautiful Together Me
Elvis
Footage
Johnny
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When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.
Adam West / Actor
Busy
Color
Cop
Fighting
Getting Started
Hours
Late
Television
Warner Brothers
Brothers
Contract
Robert
Taylor
Warner
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I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.
Simone Giertz /
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I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.
H. W. Brands /
Academia
Getting Started
Me More Know
Me Know More
Large
Large Audience
Mostly
Narrow
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
Parker Harris /
Floating
Getting Started
New Things
Time People New
Easiest
Happiest
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I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Getting Started
Lessons
Life Lesson
Responsibility
Thinking
Life Responsibility People
Life People Young
Young People
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I feel like a lot of artists, when they're on their fourth record, they're perceived as the old guys. At least in this day and age. I like that people perceive us as just getting started because that's how we perceive ourselves.
Taylor Goldsmith /
Fourth
Getting Started
Perceive
Age Day People
Day And Age
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I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.
Jacqueline Macinnes Wood / Actress
Getting Started
Vancouver
Earlier
Struggled
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I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!
Laurieann Gibson / Choreographer
Direct
Getting Started
Odd
Life Time My Life
Provide
Sign
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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
Al Walser / Musical Artist
Dance
Crazy
Dance Music
Germany
Getting Started
Industry
People
Radio
Music Me People
Music Me Crazy
Looked
Telling
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Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.
Curt Smith /
Bowie
Brian
Getting Started
Records
Talking Heads
Technology People New
David
Direction
Heads
Influenced
Production
New Direction
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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.
Eric Lefkofsky / Entrepreneur
New York
Technology
Boston
Chicago
Five
Getting Started
Interesting
Pockets
Seattle
Seeing
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Thinking
Certainly
Companies
Technology Companies
Valley
York
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I hit adversity when I was at the top of the world. Most people hit adversity when they're just at the beginning, when they're just getting started. I hit it when everybody was watching, and everybody had comments and everybody was doubting me. It was a tough situation to be in.
Chris Weidman / Mixed Martial Artist
Adversity
Getting Started
World Me People
Comments
Doubting
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I guess you could say I fell into it. The main goal was to be successful and to make my family proud. Back then, MMA was just getting started, and there didn't seem to be a ton of rules. It seemed pretty brutal, and I was still pretty focused on wrestling. But I decided to give it a shot.
Tyron Woodley / Mixed Martial Artist
Brutal
Getting Started
Mma
Ton
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Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Kids
Men
Fatherhood
Getting Started
Middle Aged
Patient
Testosterone
Time And Money
Years
Time Age Money
Established
Devote
Drop
Older
Per
Likely
Middle-Aged Man
Professionally
Rates
Reactive
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I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.
Gerry Cooney / Boxer
Boxing
Bucks
Getting Started
Retired
Corner
Marbles
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner / Writer
Advertising
Gestures
Getting Started
Manufacturing
Seventies
Disappeared
Factory
Object
Weirdly
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Forrest Mims is the author of the famous book 'Getting Started in Electronics,' published by RadioShack for many years. I bought the book in the 1980s and had a blast making the projects in it. When I was editor-in-chief of 'MAKE,' I asked Forrest to write a column for the magazine, called 'The Backyard Scientist.'
Mark Frauenfelder / Blogger
Blast
Electronics
Getting Started
Author
Backyard
Bought
Column
Magazine
Published
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'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.
Tracy Letts / Playwright
Acting
Black
Getting Started
Illinois
Next
Steppenwolf
Theater
Box
Awhile
Seat
Getting
Joe
Lab
Noticed
Originally
Produced
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