There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]

First things first, second things never.

First things first, second things never.

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il read more

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui
coute.]

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not read more

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid read more

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]

What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]

What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the
underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the
underlying mathematical structure will be seen.