Quotes on Starting Over

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been