All Quotes

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
‐‐ Alberto Salazar

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
‐‐ America Ferrera

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
‐‐ Hale Irwin

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
‐‐ Ice Cube

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
‐‐ Vikram Chatwal

Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.
‐‐ Melania Trump

Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
‐‐ Kate Klise

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
‐‐ Venus Williams

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

Early in your career, you feel like there is a formula, a path you have to take. You have to do this movie because this person directed it and you have to be associated with these people. In some ways, I have thrown that out.
‐‐ James Marsden

Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.
‐‐ James Heckman

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
‐‐ James Heckman

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
‐‐ Basmah bint Saud

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

Early numbers are always wrong.
‐‐ Mary Cheney

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
‐‐ George Saunders

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
‐‐ Edmund White

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
‐‐ Julie Christie

Early on, I joined that large group of show business cadets who were 'multi-hyphenates,' 'independents,' 'self produced' or 'alternately financed.' Sometimes, most times, I've had to do it all: raise the money, write the script, produce, direct and act in the film.
‐‐ Mike Binder

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.
‐‐ Horton Foote

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
‐‐ Jacob Epstein

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
‐‐ David Grann

Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thing. That's when I started wearing three-piece suits. It wasn't unnatural for me.
‐‐ Robin Zander

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'
‐‐ Lars Peter Hansen

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.
‐‐ Donna Mills

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
‐‐ Colson Whitehead

Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'
‐‐ Michael Douglas

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Early on, when I wrote 'Little Man Tate,' I got pigeonholed. Somebody said to me, 'You're not very dark,' and I had trouble getting certain kinds of jobs... and I learned very early that I didn't want to get pigeonholed as anything. And my next script was 'Dead Again.'
‐‐ Scott Frank

Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: 'Really? I do, too.'
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.
‐‐ Jools Holland

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
‐‐ John Piper