Getting Started Quotes

“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Start before you’re ready.”
― Steven Pressfield

“A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“You don't have to be good to start ... you just have to start to be good!”
― Joe Sabah

“You cannot begin, until you begin.”
― Tony Cleaver, A Chain of Flames

“I read these biographies all the time about these successful people and one of the patterns that I've discovered, and what I've discovered in myself and all of my friends who have become very successful, has been the fact that they say "Yes" to a lot of commitments.

If you just have this one goal, then that one thing may get shoved under the rug and procrastinated on. But if you say yes to a lot of things; if you almost overcommit, then you probably won't get all of the things you've committed to complete. But you'll get a good portion of them. The 80% that you DO get done will still be more than that one person who said no to a lot of things. The busiest people get the most things done.”
― David Tian Ph.D

“Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.”
― Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories

“A little action often spurs a lot of momentum.”
― Noah Scalin, The Design Activist's Handbook: How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design

“Don’t let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.”
― Marilu Henner

“We want things to go perfectly, so we tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right...it'd be better to focus on making do with how things actually are...”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“[...] not being afraid to make mistakes and absolutely understanding that you have to learn from them are imperative.”
― Elan Cole, The Design Activist's Handbook: How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design

“There is creative vision in each of us, but sometime it's hard to get that creative part started.”
― Barbara Januszkiewicz

“The point is that we make so many complicated excuses for not doing things. Whatever happened to a little simple ingenuity?”
― Jim Brickman, Simple Things

“In the quest of fighting procrastination and paralysis through analysis, to make the first step is to accomplish half the task. Getting started will align everything and generate an enormous momentum to do the task at hand”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“You won't get it done if you don't get started. You won't finish up if you are not fired up.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Passion gets you started. Humans push you forward. And God makes it happen.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain