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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

And so if instead you were to ask people - this started out as $500 million, and now it's pushing toward $700 million - and say, this is going to run about $1,000 a person, are you willing to commit that to have baseball come here to Washington? They're going to look at you and say, are you kidding me?

Starting over is already behind us. That's all gone. It all started the day Tyrone was hired.

I started playing at 7 in a church league with boys. My dad and I knew nothing about soccer until I was 12. Then I joined a (lower-level) team. I remember me and my dad going out on my own.

I started from nothing, and it was a long process, but now that my technique has been perfected, I have plans for many, many more designs.

The project has started producing power. But you cannot produce to full capacity from day one. It will take about 10 days for it.

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

We probably didn't realize (we had won) until it hit us in the fourth quarter. Coach started telling us during to timeouts to look around and let it sink in and just cherish the moment. That's when we realized we were going to win.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

I never trusted badges or buttons or uniforms or titles after that, ... I really started thinking for myself, which isn't bad. But the worst thing is the loss of trust, especially those you're intimate with.

I've grown up, ... I'm less naive than before. I stopped the party scene a long time ago and started spending more time with family and real friends. I'm not perfect. Sometimes, I think about what I would say if I could talk to my mother again. First, I'd get off my chest the mistakes and bad decisions I've made. I'm married now with a wonderful wife. We're expecting a baby boy in December. I'm doing LaMaze classes and experiencing morning sickness with her. As a father, I'm going to be there every day I possibly can. But I had two children out-of-wedlock, not with my wife, before I was married. They're beautiful children; I adore them. But I grew up with a solid family, and Jacob and Atiana [ages 7 and 6] are entitled to that too. I try to be a good father to them, but it's not the same and there were other times when my head was turned by fame and fortune. Maybe the best way to say it is that I've made mistakes in my life, but they were innocent mistakes and I've grown from them.

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

Steve informed me his mother was Irish, which I was unaware of. All of a sudden I started looking at the boy a bit differently, and I have kept an eye on him since.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.