It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.
Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
