Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011
I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. -Soothsayer
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.