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I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

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.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

To retire is to begin to die.

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

I don't judge anybody because I've been the one to party and look for the after party to begin! I have more fun now both when I DJ and in general.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.