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Early Days Quotes
Every big story has a rough, unfinished beginning.
A young boxer learning fundamentals from a disciplined coach, a company's earliest and least polished chapter - this page honors the uncertain starts behind later success.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few books I can recommend, but one you should read for sure is 'Do More Faster,' a book full of advice for young entrepreneurs. Looking back at the early days of Booking.com, I recognize a lot of things that feature in this the book - like 'fail fast, learn quickly.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
- Finger
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't get much better than playing Elvis during the early days of his career.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
To go back to visit the early days with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, when she was the dance captain of 'How to Succeed,' and finding them again 25 years later and working with them on 'Charity.' That was really great fun.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020