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I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.
Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.
It was very important at the outset to establish our credibility as producers who could find material that is commercial and viable.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
A poll survey should indicate at the outset whether it is meant to capture opinions and beliefs for preferences and practices or value and perceptions.
I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.
All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.
One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.
I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan.
I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
We were right to say from the outset that E.U. citizens should not be treated as bargaining chips but should have their rights guaranteed immediately. We were right to call on the government to publish a plan for Brexit.
As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.
New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together.
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.