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1 " The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy should begin with him, that the Dionysiac wisdom of tragedy should speak through him, is as puzzling a phenomenon as, more generally, the origin of tragedy from the chorus. Perhaps we can gain a starting point for this inquiry by claiming that the satyr, that fictive nature sprite, stands to cultured man in the same relation as Dionysian music does to civilization. Richard Wagner has said of the latter that it is absorbed by music as lamplight by daylight. In the same manner, I believe, the cultured Greek felt himself absorbed into the satyr chorus, and in the next development of Greek tragedy state and society, in fact everything that separates man from man, gave way before an overwhelming sense of unity that led back into the heart of nature. This metaphysical solace (which, I wish to say at once, all true tragedy sends us away) that, despite every phenomenal change, life is at bottom indestructibly joyful and powerful, was expressed most concretely in the chorus of satyrs, nature beings who dwell behind all civilization and preserve their identity through every change of generations and historical movement.With this chorus the profound Greek, so uniquely susceptible to the subtlest and deepest suffering, who had penetrated the destructive agencies of both nature and history, solaced himself. Though he had been in danger of craving a Buddhistic denial of the will, he was saved through art, and through art life reclaimed him. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Birth of Tragedy
2 " Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. "
― Deborah Day
3 " New year, new life!" - The saying goes.It will be?!Often we place expectations at a time as a starting point for the desired change. But we hope things change, and that's just it. We do not even consider a minimum of steps to start the path of change, which, yes, can be considered a starting point.There is a motive force more powerful than steam, electricity, and atomic energy: the will. - Albert Einstein said.Well, in this case: New Year, you new! Make the change happen. Do not focus only on where you want to go, but how you will arrive. If the path is long, as it always is, enjoy the landscape, make friends, sing, have fun! You may find that the great change was always in you and not in the rest of the world. "
4 " ពេលខ្លះអ្នកមានគំនិតផ្ទាល់ខ្លួនរបស់អ្នក តែអ្នកមិនអាចអនុវត្តន៍វាបានដោយសារអ្នកគ្មានអំណាច។-ដែលទី១ គ្មានអំណាចយកឈ្នះលើខ្លួនឯង (ជាចំនុចចាប់ផ្តើមដែលមនុស្សតែងតែបរាជ័យ ហើយក៏ជាចំនុចទីមួយដែលនាំទៅរកជោគជ័យដែរ)-ទី២ គ្មានអំណាចនៃការចូលរួមពីមជ្ឈដ្ឋានខាងក្រៅដែលពាក់ព័ន្ធ (អាស្រ័យលើការកំណត់គោលដៅរបស់អ្នក)។-----------------------------------------------------Sometimes you have your own ideas, but you cannot practice it because of you have no Power.- First, To overcome yourself (as a starting point that people always fail, and also the beginning point of success too)-Second, You have no Power of the participation of the relevant external environment "
5 " What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own "
6 " Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past. "
― Mary Lydon Simonsen , The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
7 " Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
8 " How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my " indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now). "
9 " I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. "
― Dave Matthes , Bar Nights (The Mire Man Trilogy, #1)
10 " It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like.But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him. "
― Jonathan Tropper , One Last Thing Before I Go
11 " We may properly and profitably amuse ourselves by distinguishing those writers who are respectively 'father-ridden,' 'son-ridden,' and 'ghost-ridden.' It is the mark of the father-ridden that they endeavor to impose the idea directly upon the mind and senses, believing that his is the whole of the work...Among the son-ridden, we may place such writers as Swinburne, in whom the immense ingenuity and sensuous loveliness of the manner is developed out of all proportion to the tenuity of the ruling idea...The ghost-ridden writer, on the other hand, conceives that the emotion which he feels is in itself sufficient to awaken response, without undergoing discipline of a thorough incarnation, and without the coherence that derives from reference to a controlling idea...It may serve as a starting point to say that, whereas failure in the father may be roughly summed up as a failure of thought and a failure in the son is a failure in action, failure in the ghost is a failure in wisdom--not the wisdom of the brain, but the more intimate and instinctive wisdom of the heart and bowels. "
― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Mind of the Maker
12 " Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion. "
13 " The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. "