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Quotes of the Day for 4 January 2010 – Start
I meant to start the year on the first. Alas, my computer had other ideas. For two long days I swapped parts and said rude things, and for another I installed and updated, installed and updated. I think I'm about half done now, but it's a Start.
The quotes:
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
- Alfred Edward Perlman
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
- Edgar Watson Howe, 1853 - 1937
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
- Martha Stewart
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford, 1893 - 1979
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr, 1943 - 1993
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Agatha Christie, 1890 - 1976
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