Initial Stages Quotes

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

The beginnings of all things are small.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I'm just another guy starting out.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

All great things have small beginnings.

In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

It's been that way since the beginning. I just been playin, I aint even notice I was winnin.

The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

It takes a long time for things to get off the ground.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.