Initial Effort Quotes

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

A good beginning makes a good end.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.